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Yesterday, I uncovered some old tant paper in my room and decided to wet fold for the first time in years. It reminded me of the power in beauty of wet folding and I really want to keep wet folding. However, I only have so much tant paper left.
I couldnt find an existing topic for this, but I think it will help a lot of people. If you have paper that you would like to know if they are good for wetfolding, or you would like to know how good they are for it, just post the paper in question on this topic and hopefully other paperfolders can answer your question
I'll start
are these papers suitable for wetfolding, and if so, how suitable are they?
-tracing paper (staedtler sketch paper)
-baking paper (brown parchment)
-thick Kraft (its probably a low quality Kraft, I got it at a.c. Moore's)
thank you

Elephant hide works very well for wet folding.

Yeah. Elephant hide is one of the best papers for wet-folding.

origamifreak_1.6180339889 wrote: are these papers suitable for wetfolding, and if so, how suitable are they?
-tracing paper (staedtler sketch paper)
-baking paper (brown parchment)
-thick Kraft (its probably a low quality Kraft, I got it at a.c. Moore's)

I think the kraft would be your best bet ( it should have good wet strength) but I've always found the tracing paper I have wrinkles like crazy when wet! Don't know about the baking paper I'm afraid, but I guess it cheap enough to give it a go. My favourite paper I've used is Murano paper made by Daler Rowney ( don't know if its available by that brand name over in Midgar though... ) Nice texture and a great range of colours. Its gelatine sized so it dries rock hard, too.