how to make handmade paper

darkeagle · Post by **darkeagle** » July 14th, 2009, 8:15 pm

hello friends I have a question, you know make paper? can be recycled handmade mulberry and even how to do ORIGAMIDO fibers and racks and all you have to do

thanks

gordigami · Post by **gordigami** » July 15th, 2009, 2:02 am

I am assuming that you've already practiced the techniques as given in Michael LaFosse's books ...
No better learning experience than diving in & getting yours hands wet & coloured .
First attempts may be uninspiring.
Most probably, improvement after trial & error.
By the way , wet boxes & drying racks are fairly easy to make. A little ingenuity goes a long way ...

mike352 · Post by **mike352** » July 15th, 2009, 5:22 am

Michael LaFosse's books Advanced Origami and Origami Art were what gordigami was referring to. They have a lot of really good information on how to make your own paper.

darkeagle · Post by **darkeagle** » July 15th, 2009, 3:28 pm

thanks I try

gordigami · Post by **gordigami** » July 16th, 2009, 1:47 pm

mike352:
Thanks for the clarification, you're exactly right , of course !
While I have the two LaFosse books in front of me, must have had a momentary brain freeze , to not list them.
( Happens all too frequently ...)
I might mention, ( and will, in fact ) that Michael and Richard also have video DVDs that show paper making and back-coating as part of the instruction for the frog, as well as the koi, maybe others.

topsu · Post by **topsu** » October 5th, 2009, 4:18 pm

Sorry for bumping an old topic, but since my post belongs here I think, I didn't make a new thread.

I am really interested in this thing at the moment, and I think I can easily get everything that I need. except one thing. Pulp. Yep, the stuff you use to make paper. I cannot find it ANYWHERE. Well, I saw someone in the internet selling some kind of pulp on America, but because one pack of pulp had a weight of around 10-20 kilos, (don't remember anymore) the shipping to Finland would cost a lot more than the pulp itself. Preparing my own pulp would be even more expensive, since a beating machine for the pulp costs around 1000 €.

So. If anyone here has made his/her own paper, I have a question: Where did you get the pulp from?

Post by **origami_8** » October 5th, 2009, 7:25 pm

I haven't bought any pulps yet but here are some pages that I found that sell pulps:
http://www.eifeltor-muehle.de/ (Search for Faserstoffe)
http://users.trytel.com/~brittq/pulp.htm
http://www.carriagehousepaper.com/

FrumiousBandersnatch · October 6th, 2009, 1:11 am

I actually took some machine made papers and put them in a blender. Instant pulp. They sell pads of plain colored washi at art supply stores here. I just put several pages in the blender, along with a piece of very heavily dyed (and acid free) scrapbooking paper for coloring. It came out fairly well, as can be seen below.

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Adam · Post by **Adam** » October 6th, 2009, 1:38 am

How thick did that paper become, Frumious?

topsu · Post by **topsu** » October 6th, 2009, 5:29 am

Thanks for the tips! I will check those links

Actually, I've got good news. I have found a shop in Finland that has a Hollander (the pulp beating machine). So, now I'm thinking of buying some beaten pulp that has been dried (that doesn't weight as much as wet pulp of course), and then send it to the shop to beat it again. I've read some information on the internet. on the internet and this seems to work quite well.

FrumiousBandersnatch · October 8th, 2009, 11:57 pm

How thick did that paper become, Frumious?

That was my first attempt so due to some experimentation the thickness varied. I never achieved a true tissue thickness, but several of the sheets were the thickness of average kami. Some of them I made thicker for wet folding ( a hair thicker than TANT, if you have used that) and some extra extra thick for the covers of some stab-bound journals I was making.

origami folder · Post by **origami folder** » October 13th, 2009, 9:39 pm

i am currently looking for new paper making ideas. since i can't make paper at the moment i thought i would ask if any one knew how to make tissue like paper (meaning as thin as tissue paper) as strong as construction paper. or is that not achievable yet.

philipinorigami101 · January 25th, 2011, 1:47 am

sorry for digging up an old topic thats 2 years old, but for people who want to make a simple screen for making paper:

http://painting.about.com/od/artsupplie ... aking2.htm

the tub, i guess you should say, for the water can be anything of your choice. haven't tried yet, but am hoping to

orislater · Post by **orislater** » January 25th, 2011, 2:08 am

thank you

philipinorigami101 · January 29th, 2011, 6:18 am

hey, you know how michael laffose makes origamido paper with abaca plants and cotton and is really expensive and you can only find instruction in 2 of his books? well, i did a bit of reasearching, and combining with the link on how to make a frame, i think the results will be, you guessed it, origamido paper (i think

)!
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/l ... -paper.htm