How to make home-made paper
The paper which we buy is made up of wood pulp. For this wood pulp they cut trees. We can reduce cutting trees by recycling the used papers. We can use these recycled papers for making greeting cards etc if not for writing. So, let us make our own home-made papers and reduce deforestation.
Materials required: - Waste paper, water, tub, Fenugreek seeds, sieve and cotton cloth.
Procedure: - Take some waste papers and cut them into small pieces. Put all waste papers pieces in a tub and add some water. Add some fenugreek seeds to waste paper in tub and let them soak overnight or for many hours. Fenugreek seeds give sticky nature to waste paper that would help us in forming paper sheets. Take soaked waste paper in a kitchen mixer and make it into fine paste. Thus the paper pieces and the fenugreek seeds become crushed and form the paper pulp.
Put the paper pulp into a tub and add plenty water to make it very thin. It shouldn’t be thick. Take a sieve, dip it into the pulp and lift it up carefully. A layer of pulp will be trapped on the sieve and the water goes back to the tub. Transfer this thick layer of pulp from the sieve to the cotton cloth by turning the sieve carefully. Absorb the wets from the back side of sieve with a dry cloth and lift the sieve carefully. Thus we successfully made our first hand made paper thick and wet.
Keep on repeating this process till the pulp is over, keep the cloth in the sunlight and let it dry. After it dries, slowly peel out the paper which is formed on the cloth carefully and then cut it into the desired shape you want. If there are wrinkles and lumps on the paper then you may keep them between books to flatten.
Greeting made using home-made paper
The paper which we buy is made up of wood pulp. For this wood pulp they cut trees. We can reduce cutting trees by recycling the used papers. We can use these recycled papers for making greeting cards etc if not for writing. So, let us make our own home-made papers and reduce deforestation.
Materials required: - Waste paper, water, tub, Fenugreek seeds, sieve and cotton cloth.
Procedure: - Take some waste papers and cut them into small pieces. Put all waste papers pieces in a tub and add some water. Add some fenugreek seeds to waste paper in tub and let them soak overnight or for many hours. Fenugreek seeds give sticky nature to waste paper that would help us in forming paper sheets. Take soaked waste paper in a kitchen mixer and make it into fine paste. Thus the paper pieces and the fenugreek seeds become crushed and form the paper pulp.
Put the paper pulp into a tub and add plenty water to make it very thin. It shouldn’t be thick. Take a sieve, dip it into the pulp and lift it up carefully. A layer of pulp will be trapped on the sieve and the water goes back to the tub. Transfer this thick layer of pulp from the sieve to the cotton cloth by turning the sieve carefully. Absorb the wets from the back side of sieve with a dry cloth and lift the sieve carefully. Thus we successfully made our first hand made paper thick and wet.
Keep on repeating this process till the pulp is over, keep the cloth in the sunlight and let it dry. After it dries, slowly peel out the paper which is formed on the cloth carefully and then cut it into the desired shape you want. If there are wrinkles and lumps on the paper then you may keep them between books to flatten.
Greeting made using home-made paper
Home-made paper
Finally your home-made paper is ready. Enjoy making greeting cards, etc.
-N.T. Ganatma
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