Have those recycled papers hanging around? Some sort of plastic storage tub, and a kitchen
blender? With a few supplies and these basic instructions, you’re well on your way to making
handmade paper and being ridiculously friendly to the environment.
Water
Scrap Papers
Plastic storage tub or vat
Kitchen blender – get one from the thrift store
Mould & Deckle (a screen attached to a frame) How-to make a mould & deckle >
Wood boards OR sponge & rolling pin
Towels, wool blankets, cloth, pellon, Sham-wows, or other absorbent material
Membuat kertas dengan tangan di rumah bisa menjadi proses yang cukup sederhana. Ini juga
merupakan cara yang fantastis untuk menggunakan up penerimaan lama Anda, kertas memo,
junk mail, dan menyalin kertas yang Anda hendak membuang di tempat sampah daur ulang, dan
bukannya menciptakan sesuatu dari yang mulia kecantikan buatan tangan.
Telah kertas-kertas daur ulang berkeliaran? Semacam bak penyimpanan plastik, dan blender
dapur? Dengan beberapa perlengkapan dan petunjuk dasar, Anda baik pada cara untuk
membuat kertas dan menjadi ridiculously ramah terhadap lingkungan.
Jauhkan membaca untuk tutorial!
Kebutuhan untuk Membuat Kertas
• Air
• Makalah Scrap
• bak penyimpanan plastik atau tong
• Kitchen blender - mendapatkan satu dari toko barang bekas
• Cetakan & memotong pinggir (layar melekat pada bingkai) Bagaimana-untuk membuat
cetakan & deckle>
• papan kayu OR spons & rolling pin
• Handuk, wol selimut, kain, pellon, Sham-wows, atau bahan penyerap lainnya
However, experiment with junk mail, office paper, paper grocery bags, the yellow pages,
rejection letters, and more. No plastic, people.
Fill up a kitchen blender with water. Throw in a good handful or two of the cut up scrap papers
(not too much more, or you’ll burn the blender motor out). Blend. Keep blending until it’s a
pulp.
Have a storage tub hanging around? Those concrete mixing vats from the hardware store also
work. Fill up the tub with your blended pulp, about 1/3 to 1/2 way. Add more water to the vat.
The more pulp to water, the thicker your paper will be.
Learn how to make your own, the cheap & quick way! Click here for the DIY mould & deckle
tutorial >
There’s also a list of papermaking suppliers who sell mould & deckles on our Paperlinks page.
Or, check the Paperslurry Classifieds page for used equipment.
‘Couching’ means to transfer the wet sheet from the mould to a flat, absorbent surface. Wool
felts are ideal, but there are many other options: wool blankets, smoother towels, paper towels,
thicker non-fusible interfacing or pellon, sham-wows, or bed sheets. Set up your felt with a board
underneath.
Place pellon or paper towel on top of your freshly couched sheet. With a sponge, press gently at
first, then press firmly with as much pressure as possible. Have a rolling pin or old paint roller?
Use that to press your paper even more.
LANGKAH 5: MENEKAN
Opsi 1: Tangan Menekan
Tempatkan pellon atau handuk kertas di atas lembar Anda baru ditulis. Dengan spons, tekan dengan
lembut pada awalnya, kemudian tekan dengan kuat dengan banyak tekanan mungkin. Memiliki rolling
pin atau roller cat lama? Menggunakannya untuk menekan kertas Anda bahkan lebih
Option 2: Board Pressing
Place another felt on top of your freshly couched sheet. Continue to couch another sheet, layer
another felt, and repeat. Layer one final felt and another wood board when you’ve made a stack.
Take the post outside to a concrete or stone surface. Stand on it!
Opsi 2: Dewan Menekan
Tempatkan lain merasa di atas lembar Anda baru ditulis. Terus melatih lembar lain, lapisan lain merasa,
dan ulangi. Lapisan satu merasa final dan papan kayu lain ketika Anda sudah membuat stack. Mengambil
pos luar ke permukaan beton atau batu. Berdiri di atasnya!!
STEP 6: DRYING
Find a flat, non-porous surface. Smooth wood boards, plexiglass, windows, and formica
surfaces work well.
Take your wet sheet and gently press onto the flat surface. Make sure the edges are
pressed down well.
Let the paper dry (1-3 days depending on humidity levels and thickness of the paper).
Peel it off.
LANGKAH 6: DRYING
Opsi 1: Permukaan Pengeringan (itu gambar ini di sini)
• Cari datar, permukaan non-berpori. papan kayu, plexiglass, jendela, dan permukaan formika halus
bekerja dengan baik.
• Ambil selembar basah dan lembut tekan ke permukaan datar. Pastikan ujung-ujungnya ditekan ke
bawah dengan baik.
• Biarkan kertas kering (1-3 hari tergantung pada tingkat kelembaban dan ketebalan kertas).
• Kupas off.
This one’s easy. Take your wet sheet and throw it on a shelf, table, counter…and let it dry. It’ll
be wild, wrinkly, and textured, but sometimes wild and free is good
After pressing, peel and hang up the cloth or pellon (with the wet paper still stuck to it) that
you’ve couched onto, and hang on a clothesline with the top edge of the pellon.
Because you’ve pressed the paper to the pellon, the pellon will restrain the paper as it dries.
Once the paper is dry (1-2 days), peel it from the pellon. The paper will be slightly wavy.
Also, if you have left over pulp in the tub, you can save it. Take a mesh paint strainer bag, or a
fine mesh pasta strainer to drain out all the water. A condensed version of the pulp will be left.
Squeeze that into a ball, and let it dry. To reuse down the road, simply soak overnight, rip apart,
and blend again.
Thank-you Liz Wikstrom for helping make this tutorial happen, and for making paper!
Do you make paper from scraps? Did you find this tutorial helpful? Have other tips and tricks?
Comment on this blog post and share with us all!
Many of us throw paper in our recycling bins without too much thought, but believe it or not,
people have been making paper for 2000 years. In the U.S., we've been recycling it for more than
100 years. Paper recycling might seem like the sort of thing best left to paper mills, but it turns
out you can recycle your own paper at home without too much trouble. You'll be able to
eliminate some household waste - like junk mail, used printer paper or old wrapping paper - and
create something unique and handmade at the same time.
Plenty of instructions exist online for how to make your own paper. The Daily Green offers a
straightforward video tutorial, which makes the process easy to understand, and About.com's
Chemistry section has a simple set of written instructions. To give you a general sense of the
process, we'll summarize how it works.
A mold made of a frame and screen helps form each sheet of paper. Photo: Flickr/myhsu
Main Steps:
1. Tear the paper into small pieces and put into a blender with warm water. Blend until the
mixture becomes a fairly smooth pulp.
2. Assemble your "mold"; attach your screen to your frame using duck tape, staples or any other
method that will keep the screen affixed to the frame's edges.
3. Pour the pulp into your bin or pan, then sink the mold into the water mixture. Pull the mold up,
and pulp should cover the screen. At this point, you can add decorations. You can even add seeds
to make plantable paper. Be sure to add a little more pulp to cover the decorations so they adhere
to the paper.
4. Use a cloth or sponge to press out excess water. Now you need to let the paper dry. You can
let it dry on the screen, you can flip the mold over and let your paper dry on another surface, or
you can press a cloth into the mold so the paper adheres to it and can dry on the cloth. Any of
these options should work. Just be sure to let your paper dry for a day or so.
Langkah-langkah utama:
1. Merobek kertas menjadi potongan-potongan kecil dan dimasukkan ke dalam blender dengan air
hangat. Blender sampai campuran menjadi bubur cukup halus.
2. Merakit "cetakan" Anda; melampirkan layar untuk bingkai Anda menggunakan bebek tape, staples
atau metode lain yang akan membuat layar ditempelkan ke tepi frame.
3. Tuang bubur ke dalam bin atau pan, kemudian tenggelam cetakan ke dalam campuran air. Tarik
cetakan up, dan pulp harus mencakup layar. Pada titik ini, Anda dapat menambahkan dekorasi. Anda
bahkan dapat menambahkan biji untuk membuat kertas tanam. Pastikan untuk menambahkan lebih
bubur sedikit untuk menutupi dekorasi sehingga mereka mematuhi kertas.
4. Gunakan kain atau spons untuk menekan keluar kelebihan air. Sekarang Anda perlu membiarkan
kertas kering. Anda dapat biarkan kering di layar, Anda dapat flip cetakan atas dan biarkan kering kertas
di permukaan lain, atau Anda dapat menekan kain ke dalam cetakan sehingga kertas mematuhi dan
dapat kering pada kain. Salah satu opsi ini harus bekerja. Hanya pastikan untuk membiarkan kering
kertas Anda untuk satu atau dua hari.
Memeriksa langkah-langkah dalam tindakan, courtesy of The Daily Hijau:
• Fill up a kitchen blender with water. Throw in a good handful or two of the cut up scrap
papers (not too much more, or you’ll burn the blender motor out). Blend. Keep blending
until it’s a pulp.
• Have a storage tub hanging around? Those concrete mixing vats from the hardware
store also work. Fill up the tub with your blended pulp, about 1/3 to 1/2 way. Add more
water to the vat. The more pulp to water, the thicker your paper will be.
• STEP
• Hold the mould screen side up, and place the deckle
evenly on top.
mould and deckle to the bottom of the vat and scoop up,
and forth, and left to right to align the fibers and make a
drained.