I've been experimenting with making "faux" handmade paper lately. I'm suing a lot of different substrates from copy paper, card stock, tea dyed and cool-aid dyed paper but the one I like best so far is parchment paper.
I like the translucent look of the paper after it dries and it seems strong enough to use as a book cover. But what I really love is the texture! I'm using lots of different things to put on the surface: cheese cloth, tea bag papers, thread, cut up yarns, dried flowers, fake flowers, and tea leaves, to name a few. But with all experiments, differing materials get different results. I was using a very thin layer of napkin at first but it kept ripping so I tried some white tissue paper which is stronger but more opaque. Tomorrow, I will review the tissue piece to see if I like it. If I don't, it will be recycled into something else and I will have learned something.
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Anitta
1/21/2020 07:16:24 am
I love the idea! What a great way to use the stuff that would normally go into landfill. Especially stuff costume makers use, whose studio floors are a treasure chest of materials!
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