How to Make Paper by Hand

How to Make Paper by Hand

Make Paper - Cutting the Jeans

Make Paper - Cutting the Jeans

Make Paper - Beating the Jeans into Pulp

Make Paper - Beating the Jeans into Pulp

Make Paper - Preparing the Vat with Pulp

Make Paper - Preparing the Vat with Pulp

Make Paper - Forming the Sheets

Make Paper - Forming the Sheets

Make Paper - Pressing the Paper

Make Paper - Pressing the Paper

Make Paper - Loading the Drying Box

Make Paper - Loading the Drying Box

Make Paper -Checking for Flaws

Make Paper -Checking for Flaws

How to Make Paper by Hand

How to Make Paper by Hand

How To Make A Flower Card For Special Occasions

How To Make A Flower Card For Special Occasions

How to Make A Duct Tape Sports Hand

How to Make A Duct Tape Sports Hand

How To Make A Duct Tape Holiday Wallet

How To Make A Duct Tape Holiday Wallet

How To Make A Duct Tape Christmas Tree Ornament

How To Make A Duct Tape Christmas Tree Ornament

How To Make A Duct Tape Christmas Stocking

How To Make A Duct Tape Christmas Stocking

How To Make A Simple Duct Tape Holiday Ornament

How To Make A Simple Duct Tape Holiday Ornament

How To Make A Duct Tape Gift Box

How To Make A Duct Tape Gift Box

How To Make A Duct Tape Holiday Chain

How To Make A Duct Tape Holiday Chain

How To Make A Duct Tape Poinsettia

How To Make A Duct Tape Poinsettia

Haunted Gingerbread House

Haunted Gingerbread House

Edible Candy Bowl Centerpiece

Edible Candy Bowl Centerpiece

Trick or Treat Candy Cups

Trick or Treat Candy Cups

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Gretchen Schermerhorn

Pyramid Atlantic

www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org  

301-608-9101

Pyramid Atlantic offers fully equipped studios for papermaking, etching, lithography, relief, screen-printing, letterpress, and digital printing. Keyholder residency opportunities support artists who have an interest in printmaking, papermaking and book arts and whose talent deserves to be recognized. The artists provide their own materials. Keyholder resident artists work within the schedule of workshops and scheduled studio activities. They are enriched by the supportive, creative community comprised of artist-staff, interns, other visiting artists, and the public.

Make Paper - Pressing the Paper

This video will show how to make paper and how to press the paper.

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Transcripts

Gretchen Schermerhorn: Hi, I am Gretchen and I am at Pyramid Atlantic and today we are making paper by hand. In this clip, I am going to show you how to take your post and load it into the jack. Now what you want to do is easily lift up your post and slide it into the jack. You want to put as many boards as you can on top of that to fill up the space that's in between your post and the top platen of the jack. Then slowly start cranking it down. Keep cranking, keep cranking, you will see water going all over the floor and keep going. You wait about 10-15 minutes till it all stops dripping. Then you take it out and then you are going to load it into the drying box which we will discuss later, but what if you don't have a jack? I will show you what you can do instead. But what if we don't have a jack? Well, I am going to show you something that you can do instead. You will just leave your post with a felt on top of it just like this and you will get another board in similar size and just put it right on top. Make sure it is on a table that can support quite a bit of weight. The next thing you will do is you are going to take those buckets that we were using earlier, these five gallon buckets and you will just place them right on top. Now what you are going to do is you are going to fill them up with water and you are going to actually let this stand overnight because you don't have as much pressure as you did in the jack. So longer pressing, less weight. So in the next clip, I am going to show you how to take your damp papers out of the jack and load it into the paper drying box.

Paper Organization - Paper Influx

Paper Organization - Paper Influx

Paper Organization - Incoming Mail

Paper Organization - Incoming Mail

Paper Organization - Pile or Stack of Papers

Paper Organization - Pile or Stack of Papers

Maintaining Your Paper Organization

Maintaining Your Paper Organization

Paper Mache

Paper Mache

How to Make Paper Mache Paste

How to Make Paper Mache Paste

How to Make a Paper Mache Bowl

How to Make a Paper Mache Bowl

Paper Mache - Attaching the Base to the Bowl

Paper Mache - Attaching the Base to the Bowl

Paper Mache - Painting and Decorating

Paper Mache - Painting and Decorating

Paper Cube Making - Origami

Paper Cube Making - Origami