How to make paper at home?

To make paper at home, it is possible as a raw material use almost any trimming and residue (laminated paper does not work). You will also need water, a sponge, a special screen, a blender or mixer, newsprint or sheets of blotting paper. Also, a piece of cloth with a size slightly larger than the screen will be needed, as well as a sufficiently deep and wide capacity. As such a capacity, home papermakers often use a cat tray.

Screen for the production of paper at home you can buy in the storefor needlework, but you can make it yourself. To do this, you need a metal grid with very small cells, for example, mosquito net, as well as a wooden frame. Using a stapler, you need to fasten the mesh and the frame with the staples. The screen is ready.

When all the necessary tools and materialsprepared, you can start making paper at home. The rest of the paper must be torn into pieces not larger than 2 cm (you can also cut with scissors). In a blender, pour a little water and then add pieces of paper. Next, the blender should be turned on for about 1 minute - the mass will turn into gruel. The longer the paper is grinded in the blender, the more fine-grained will be the structure of the resulting sheets.

You can make paper at home frompieces of the same color or from multi-colored pieces. To add color to paper, you can use natural or artificial dyes. Besides, paper can be whitened. To do this, the hydroperite tablets will be needed: they should be dissolved in a small amount of water, and then the resulting solution must be added to the pulp.

Warm water should be poured into a wide and deep container. Obtained in a blender The pulp must be poured into a container of water, mix thoroughly with hands. At this stage of making homemade paper, you can add to the mass of various decorative elements: confetti, colorful threads, sequins, etc. Perfectly suitable for decorating paper are also petals of flowers, various leaves.

Now It is necessary to prepare the prepared screen, holding it vertically, to lower it into a container with water. Then the screen should be placed horizontally,as if scooping up water for them. Easy movements left and right should evenly distribute the layer of paper mass on the surface of the screen. After that, the screen can be removed by holding it horizontally. Wait until the excess water drains.

Using a sponge it is necessary blot out the resulting paper (from the side where it is located directlymesh) several times to remove moisture. Prepared earlier piece of cloth should be spread on a wide flat surface. On the fabric should put a screen with paper mass "face" down. The sponge should be damped a few more times.

Now follows gently separate the screen from paper, then cover the resulting sheet of paper with a newspaperor a blotting sheet, then cover with a cloth and then put under the press (a thick enough and heavy book is suitable). After a few minutes, the press can be removed, and then carefully remove the paper from the fabric and dry it in a well-ventilated place. In order to speed up drying, you can iron the paper through iron with gauze. The paper is ready!

So, make paper at home It turns out to be quite simple, and, tothe same, very accessible. And the result will certainly be pleased with its uniqueness, because nowhere else in the world will not find the same paper - each sheet is unique.