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 -Checking for Flaws

This video will show how to make paper and how to check paper for flaws.

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Gretchen Schermerhorn: Hi, I am Gretchen from Pyramid Atlantic and today we are learning about hand paper making from old blue jeans and we have just finished unloading the drying box and now I am going to take out the dry sheets of paper and see what we have and also check those sheets of paper for any flaws or maybe the sheet wasn't very well formed or just things that we generally want to take out of a batch of good quality paper. So let's see what we have. Nice, well-formed, nice sound, we call that a rattle and doesn't seem to be any evident flaws on here, but if there are, sometimes we can pick those off, sometimes though you just have to set it aside and it didn't make the cut and you can recycle it again. You can pulp this paper again. Now we talked about today making paper from blue jeans which of course are cotton which is cellular, but you can really make paper out of just about any kind of plant materials. Of course, some work better than others, we found, but here are some sheets of paper that we made from agave, nice, crisp texture and rattle. This is made from flax and this one is made from cattail. That's a little bit softer than the others. Some of the papers are more translucent, you can see more light comes through them like this one. This one is Kozo fiber and some of them even have what we call watermarks and this one has a - the light can pass through it. So it is all pretty interesting. Well, I have enjoyed showing you today a little bit about the fine art of hand paper making. I hope that you found it useful and I hope that if you enjoyed watching this, you might try to find some facilities near where you live and learn a little bit more about making paper. Alright, thanks.

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