I was taking a papermaking class in college when we were sent home last semester so I have some experience make paper at home! I have some tips if you try this again. It really helps to have a finer pulp, it should feel like slush, this helps you get a thinner and more even looking piece of paper. For forming your sheets it’s easier if your mold and deckle has a wooden frame, without it the sheet warps and you don’t get as even as a piece of paper. In my first day of quarantine I only had popsicle sticks so I cut and glued them to get a sturdy edge. When putting paper on a surface like a window do it straight from your wooden mold and deckle and press firmly on all sides and the center to get an even piece. You can also reactive dried pulp for later. If you are keeping it out you need to wash it and change the water daily to prevent mold and it should really always be in the fridge. I’m so excited that you’re getting into papermaking it’s such a wonderful process! For one of my projects I collected flowers from my town and blended it into my pulp to make floral paper! You have to seal the paper with mod podge or something though to stop the flowers from decaying. I would love to see more of your papermaking adventures💕

@bookbindinggeek

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, a finer pulp would make the papers easier to fold. And if you still want a more handmade feel to the paper you can add some bigger sized pulp to your smaller sized pulp. The finer sized pulp should be the base where you then add other pulp for decorative purposes.

@M15TRY_

3 жыл бұрын

Jeez thats loooonng

@heartemqs.

3 жыл бұрын

Saved me a lot of time ❤️

@carveylover

3 жыл бұрын

🤔🤔now I really really want to make my own paper. What helpful advice! You had a good teacher if you retained all that.

@sherrimiller5258

3 жыл бұрын

I can’t imagine how some people would have survived when we wrote letters using a paper and pen. Apparently anything over four sentences is loooonnnngggg. I used to write my best friend fifty page letters in junior high. I see these comments from time to time and can’t help wonder why they don’t just pass these looooonnnnggg comments by rather than stop to criticize? Did someone force you to read it? 🙄

"i'm going to beat the paper instead" ah.... so you have chosen violence.......

@SeaLemonDIY

3 жыл бұрын

😬

@erinhallmakes777

3 жыл бұрын

I believe you mean Lockdown therapy

@aat10Kyoko

3 жыл бұрын

So that’s where “beaten to a pulp” comes from? ♪───Ｏ（≧∇≦）Ｏ────♪

@lizgutierrrez400

3 жыл бұрын

LOL

@Disha-kn7ym

3 жыл бұрын

Peace was never an option

Once I've been to a paper-making class with my son, he was quite young and now I understand why paper napkins were used for that class :))) it literally melted in water, no beating needed. having a bunch of kids around, that's exactly what you need - an easy process :) one thing which was unexpected - they used dried rose petals, the delicate ones and the paper turned out to be really cool, romantic even :)))

@sherrimiller5258

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds really interesting. I would like to try adding flowers.

@jin-kx4vl

3 жыл бұрын

were the rose petals also blended?

@oksanatymoshenko8770

3 жыл бұрын

@@jin-kx4vl no, they weren't. But they were quite small and thin. Previously dried! I think that matters too.

Imagine walking by her house and just seeing all the handmade paper slapped to the windows 😂😂

@kategregorowicz8508

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that

I like your approach. Reading a book instead of just the internet, not going out to buy stuff, you just give it a try and know itˋs a process and doesnˋt have to be perfect the first time.

I love that you share the WHOLE learning journey. I think I will opt for drying my paper outside...I think it will dry faster and it could be covered with a screen or cheese cloth "tent" to keep the bugs out. I like that you can put flower seeds in you handmade paper so that it can be recycled into the garden or a flower pot.

@pabloridbzz7957

2 жыл бұрын

Hi beautiful, 🥰sorry for infringing on your privacy, i was just scrolling through KZread videos when I came across your pulchritudinous picture on your profile while scrolling through this KZread videos and reading few comments luckily I found yours first which immediately urged my heart and it stopped then pushed me to message you,I bet if beauty contest could be held among angels you would have won 👸 .. please If you don’t mind I would like to chat with you when you’re free to do so, I don’t use KZread always but I don’t mind WhatsApp if you’re good with it also…

Try using Japanese binding technique with this paper. That would be cool!

@usedcookingoil1963

3 жыл бұрын

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The struggle is real. I did this years ago with my art teacher. It was so confusing. Support your local libraries!

Sorry, I got distracted with your dog in the background 😂

@LainNakota

3 жыл бұрын

I was going to say exactly the same. I hope Jennifer appreciates our tremendous effort to listen to her and trying not to stare at Kona the whole time, hahahaha

@jazzlinton9057

3 жыл бұрын

**Project Manager

@siiiriously3226

3 жыл бұрын

soooo cute and calming to see doggo chillin´

An interesting idea is to add plant seeds to the pulp and create greeting cards for gardener friends who can plant the cards in the garden afterwards.

Thanks for the great introduction to paper making! I tried paper making for the first time last Fall at a course, and I made enough A4 sized papers to make a small book in the future. We used a hand blender in a bucket to make the pulp after letting the paper scrabs soak in water. And to dry the paper we first used a sponge, then ironed the paper in between a couple of pieces of cotton fabric. Just don't use steam when you iron, because that's counterproductive. A lot of papers alreary have the size on them, that helps to hold them together. So if you use like office paper or old mail, you don't need to add size to your pulp water mixture, because the papers already have it. If you want to make some fancy papers, I recommend adding the top layers of some nice paper napkins to the paper, right after you lift the deckle from your water pulp mixture. The fibers stick to each other. I also added dried and pressed flowers to my papers this way and they turned out really pretty.

@adinapeterson3929

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for all the tips! I have added paper confetti to the top of paper before but next time I'll have to try fancy napkins.

@bookbindinggeek

3 жыл бұрын

@@adinapeterson3929 Experimenting is definitely one of the best parts of paper making. I also added some images that I ripped from newspapers on the paper after lifting the deckle from the water. One lady on my course even added some feathers to her papers! I also added flowery loose leaf green tea to my water pulp mixture at some point. I got some interesting papers that way and they smell amazing! :p

@marybarratt2649

3 жыл бұрын

Tku for the napkin tip

Just imagine making 40 pages like this and making a sketchbook from those pages

@yeah2853

3 жыл бұрын

Heaven

@Layer03cyberia

3 жыл бұрын

I did. It was very easy and you can use whatever you have around

@jammiejammed

2 ай бұрын

sadly recycled paper doesn't take well to erasers and the fibres come apart when erased :( it would be awesome for ink-only sketchbooks though

Aww Kona is so adorable laying with her arms and legs in the air 1:45

I recently made a book out of DIY paper and here are some thoughts to share to the void: - I think adding a little cornstarch helped make the paper sturdier - having a deckle also allows for you to have a slightly thicker paper that can withstand the hole punching process (i think it's because the edges are thicker because it's wood as opposed to tape but doubling the tape can help just the same I think) - I also used single-sheet binding method so I didn't have to fold paper - There are also some concerns with the type of pens you can use to write on the paper: ballpoint works well, gel pens can pierce, and fountain pens bleed too much (from what I've heard form others, this is also why sizing is important). It was harder to do all that, the worst was being patient enough to compile all the paper to make enough pages, but all and all it was worth it to see a book you know you made entirely from scratch! pun intended

Came for the title; stayed for the stretchy pupper in the background. 😁

I can't wait to watch this! I saved all my notes from last semester, and I'm going to make them into paper to make an art journal. Why not make something beautiful out of all my hard work? :) EDIT: Well, I am undeterred. If I can't make sheets that will fold well enough to book bind, I'll make art prints out of them. :) Thank you for sharing your particular process and struggles! :)

@Mister_Dollz

3 жыл бұрын

If you do this, Jennifer has a tutorial for binding single sheets of paper together, so you can still make a book.

@ivygarcia6878

3 жыл бұрын

I've made paper and painted on them with acrylic. It worked pretty well! Try stab binding (aka japanese binding)

@xandir1lover

3 жыл бұрын

Ive been making paper with very basic supplies and I can tell you that its absolutely possible to make journals out of them. I have been both making single sheet binded notebooks and folded. It just can't handle as much paper as your standard notebook since the paper is bound to be thicker than machine made ones. Don't give up! It is a trial and errors type of art, if it doesnt work one way, try a different way and you will eventually find the perfect way for you :)

Thank you for saying papermaking was harder than you'd thought it would be! Experts make it look easy but I imagine there's lots of room for trial and error.

So honored to have been mentioned by you ❤️ This must have been such an enjoyable experiment and do hope you continue to make more paper to bind them as beautifully as you do 😍

I really want to try this after seeing that there's a low budget and low commitment way to do this, but I think it's gonna have to wait until it's summer because this definitely seems like an outside project lmao. I'd like to do some impasto painting on it, I think that'd look neat.

I was literally doing this last night! I put a little glue in the paste so it sticks together

I find that a pour mold is easier to work with and eliminates the trial and error with how much pulp to have in the vat. Arnold Grummer has some really nice kits and a book with great techniques. You might enjoy his tin can kit if you’re looking for a less formal way of making paper with pre bought molds.

@Liftbridgecards

3 жыл бұрын

I’m actually making paper today - an iron is good for starting the drying process, and drying under pressure helps make a stronger paper. I don’t have much luck with it being good at folding, though, either.

Adorable doggie being adorable in the background. 😴 🐶

I love making paper! It is super relaxing and makes me feel so "recycle-y"

this was so thorough! thank you. i really like the fact that you gave alternatives to supplies. i hate when diy projects want you to have ten hyperspecific products because half the fun of diy is that you can make new things out of old things or even garbage!

I too made my paper but I soaked them for 4 days and they got easily pulped by hands😄😄

I mix the paper scraps in the vat after soaking for a day with a paint stirrer attachment and a drill. If you want to make large rustic sheets you can pour the pulp onto a towel outside then press with another towel,and let dry. Fun to do with kids

you can add glue to your extra pulp and use it for paper mache. There are other tutorials for using the pulp to make air dry clay or fire starters for camping, wood burning fireplaces, or firepits

Finally seeing you making this

I used to make paper when I was a little kid, and I didn't use any of those materials... I would use newspaper in a bucket, tint it with finger paint, squeeze the water out and shape with my hands onto another piece of newspaper, wrap it well in the paper and leave it in the sun to dry. It did form a bit too thick paper, but it was so fun to make and use, I loved it.

I made paper before: when I was in elementary school. We used newspapers and recycled paper (from the recycle bin). We let it sit for about 24/48 hours so the fibers would separate. We then used a immersion blender to blend the paper and we drained it. We put the pulp sit on a piece of polystyrene from some kind of packaging and let it dry near the window (or else it would fly away if it was outside the window.

if you enjoyed it I would definitely recommend picking up a blender from the charity shop. I love making paper its much easier when the pulp matter is very small. I thought the yellow paper you made was adorable, it would be lovely on anything.

I love how you came up with such different methods to make paper despite sm content online related to this topic, the amount of research, thought and work that went into making this video is evident! love it

Your papers are beautiful! Good for you for testing the process which is the best teacher after all the books, videos, and people research. The VanderWalles (probably misspelled) forces right when lifting the screen from the water (a sucking action) pulls the fibres to each other and the actual fibres interlock. This is what makes paper and not just a paper maché sheet. Having finer pulp may assure this but the source of pulp makes a big difference. Copy paper is made from wood pulp and that is of short fibres. Adding some beaten Japanese papers will add longer fine fibres and thinner sheets can be made that hold together. Also beaten fibres of inner bark of dafhne, mitumata, gampi. kosovo, etc. meet this criteria. Your first session has yielded some lovely paper-like forms yet they will hold together better by getting the fibres to actually draw to each other and interlock. Mixing in finer pulped recycled papers could achieve this while leaving chunky bits for beauty will help but if the source of fibre is weak it just gets pulped to wet dust and won’t lock. But if some longer stronger fibres are introduced, ones that break down to fine strands, not wet dust, such as those Japanese papers, added to your recycled pulp the results will be true paper of infinite variety, beautiful surface design and most of all the very coveted deckle edge handmade paper is known for. I hope you keep making and experimenting because I applaud your approach to learning and you are an excellent communicator.🦌💌❤️📚

I have made paper every year with my 4th grade classes. If you like that very textured paper, that's fine, but if you want something you can bend or bind, your pulp should be much finer. I was lucky enough to have a cast-off blender to use for pulping. You could also try cooking the pulp. Sometimes it's nice to have those bigger pieces of scraps with the finer pulp. It would strengthen your paper without making it so thick if you used some cotton linter mixed with the scraps. You could just use white felt instead of the colored, which I noticed also dyed your paper. With so many classes, I couldn't afford piles of felt (everyone wanted to make many sheets of paper!), so I used fabric interlining (Pellon) for felts. Finer screens definitely make smoother paper. Looks like you had fun!

I love when you try something new and share that with us. That helps me see the process as a novice and hear how you experience the craft for the first time. That said, I appreciate your skill, and learning from your years of expertise :-) Be well and thank you.

This has been the most useful YT vid on paper making i've seen yet, and have been psyching myself up to coming round to making some and you've really motivated me to start so thank you!!

Thank you so much for this tutorial- and thank you SO much for folding your finished products. That has helped me tremendously!

Your paper feels delicate in part because you chose to use the paper shredder rather than hand tearing. You’re meant to hand-tear so you get the longer paper fibre strands. When you use the shredder, you cut through those fibres so your paper won’t have strength. The efficiency you gain directly loses you quality (that’s what I was taught when I learned paper making, and it’s held true)

I quite like the chunky look of your paper! If you want to revisit the paper making without investing in a real mold and decal I recommend using an embroidery hoop and some tulle, or whatever meshy fabric you've got laying around. I've been making product tags using a small 3 inch hoop that looks so darling and it's surprisingly not a pain in the butt like I initially thought it would be having to remove the outer hoop every time. Just tighten the hoop enough to keep the tulle taught but not so tight that you cant slip the outer ring off. I hope you go back and try this out again! I loved seeing your trial and error process! :D

I'm doing my first paper making today... I'm glad to see that new paper makers have problems too!!! Thank you for showing what does and doesn't work!

Thank you for figuring it out for us. I loved how you tried to not buy new stuff and tried to be creative about other materials :)

Love the dog in the chair in the background!

That dog in the background! 🤣🤣🤣

oh my god you changed and in a good way! like you were my childhood and i always watched ur videos, you popped up on my recommendations just now and i got so many memories back love ur work keep it up!

I’ve been saving my scraps to try this too! I really appreciate the research you did. I’ve been trying to find more resources for book/paper making and am really grateful that you lost yours. Thank you!

@KahleeFlower

3 жыл бұрын

Omg I meant listed!!

This is my first feeling of your channel. I have been watching quite a few paper making videos, and really enjoyed your approach and honesty. Subscribed.

woah i really thought this channel was a fever dream of 12 year old me.....so glad i found it again 4 years later-

I just wanted you to know that I started watching you whenever I was in 6th grade and I'm now a sophomore in college and still watching your videos! ❤️

@kim99may

Жыл бұрын

So cool 😎

I would love to see you do this again with the sizing/gluing process added in. Definitely interested in what kind of difference that would make in the end result!

Your paper came out Beautiful! Great video and very helpful tips! I love your idea of doing by hand versus a blender! So many Wonderful uses for this paper! Even though it's fragile, you can glue onto pages in a journal or scrapbook, glue onto cardstock or file folder to make tags, frame and use for wall art! Great job~Thank you for sharing! 🥰❤

I loved this video! I'm always drawn to handmade papers (especially those with natural elements like leaves and flowers!) and never really knew where to start to make it. Watching this makes me think maybe I'll leave it to summer when I can do this outside, but you've made it very accessible. These papers would add lovely decorative touches to tags, bookmarks, inserts on book covers... so many options! Cheers!

You channel just popped up today so I watched this episode. I'm thrilled with your channel. I've liked and subscribed. You explain things so well and I really love how you took us on the process of paper making, including the things that worked and didn't. You have such a great television presence and explain things so well. Thank you!

I've just started trying to make paper using some other videos as a starting point. Got some good ideas from yours such as drying on a window. Keep up the great work.

The most important thing is to get as long a fibre as possible, find the grain and rip along it. The shorter the fibres the less it will mesh

I went to a STEM camp once, and this was one of the activities that we tried! It was so much fun!! We put different pressed flowers and sparkles in ours too! 😊

Love this!!!! I’ve always wanted to do this with the elderly….but it’s so involved. Those final pieces would be great to make mosaics!!!

I hope you expand on this. I enjoyed watching you and having you share what was challenging. Other videos make it look so easy.

Now I want to try papermaking! I love that you worked with what you've got and not buy all new stuff

The entire process was fun and lot to learn. Live your honest explanation. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

So cool love how they came out even if for decoration.

Really cool. You have a lot of patience

You are so organized and your instructions were easy to follow and great ways to use the mesh! Thanks for sharing.

Deckle isn’t tall enough, try a couple of layers of your tape

Try this again, I feel like there’s more here. I’m intrigued to learn more through your process! Thank you!

wow your hard work is clearly seen ! loved it

Love seeing you try this! I have a kit that I bought, but haven’t attempted it yet. Thanks for demystifying some elements!

I want to try this myself. You did such a good job!

We used pink Styrofoam insulation boards as couching boards when I took a papermaking class a couple semesters ago. They work really well for couching the paper onto, but they're so fragile and any deep gouges will affect the pull of your sheet of paper.

That was a fun video! I took a paper making class in college. A finer pulp really does help the overall texture of the paper. We used "Pelon" four couching and it worked really well. It is the stuff that they use for interfacing basically, but get the kind with no adhesive. Also the more pressure used for pressing, the better the paper comes out.We had an actual press at school that pressed at hundreds of pounds. However using two boards and putting the piles of paper with their couching material between them and using weights- from book to humans to press them for several minutes will still work better than simply rolling them. I would bring my paper home damp. I would put a piece of blotting paper between each sheet. I used two large flat hard pieces of wood to put the stacks of paper between, and nylon straps... like for compressing sleeping bags... two around the long side, one around the short, and cinch them all as tight as they would go. After I got home, I would change to new blotting paper, and put my wet blotting paper on a drying rack to reuse. I would then put them back between the boards and cinched them again. I changed the blotting paper 3 times a day until the paper was nearly completely dry, then would put each piece on a small over the door drying rack.. I got some nice paper this way, thin pieces with good cohesion. Depending on the material, I was able to fold many of them and use them in art projects. You can actually size homemade paper after the fact. Even covering them with a wash of thin gelatin will work. You can also use other raw materials for making the pulp, like pulling apart cotton rags and snipping them into small pieces. With careful sizing, paper produced this way can make some very nice art paper, even watercolor. I was even able to make a sort of watermark type thing on my sheets by sticking a shaped piece of craft foam on the mold (or was it deckle?) that left an imprint on the paper. AHHHH, I really loved paper making. I will sign up again when live classes start again. :)

@annepayne890

11 ай бұрын

That was very informative. Thank you for the info. I tried this once, then found this video. Your advise is the best. 😊I can’t wait to try again now.

I am living for Kona in the background. I told a field trip in elementary school & we made paper there, I don't remember why, but I do remember we used construction paper in our paper making that we got to tear up. Using a shredder is such a genius idea Jen!

@pabloridbzz7957

2 жыл бұрын

Hi beautiful, 🥰sorry for infringing on your privacy, i was just scrolling through KZread videos when I came across your pulchritudinous picture on your profile while scrolling through this KZread videos and reading few comments luckily I found yours first which immediately urged my heart and it stopped then pushed me to message you,I bet if beauty contest could be held among angels you would have won 👸 .. please If you don’t mind I would like to chat with you when you’re free to do so, I don’t use KZread always but I don’t mind WhatsApp if you’re good with it also

Excited to see you post this video I can’t wait to start making my own paper

I'd love to see more paper making videos! This was very interesting!

This lady is my spirit animal. Subscribed.

Thank you for the information ❤️❤️ it really does help

I remember making paper in elementary school and we put Elmer's glue in the water to hold the paper together. We used a wire hanger and panty hose to make the frame. *Memories*

Thanks a lot for this video! It's helpful at each step!!♥️🌟

Thank you for the video! Your dog is beautiful 🌸

Loved watching your process! I always wanted to explore paper making, but just didn’t want to use a blender, so I love that you researched alternative methods. After seeing the process, I now know I really wouldn’t want to make paper, lol 😆. Thanks for the great video!

THIS IS FANTASTIC!!!!!!!

I like seeing the trial and error. You saved me a lot of headaches 😊🤣. Thank you for your sacrifice ❤️😊

This looks like so much fun!!😍

Wow, this video just comes in while I'm in the process of trying it out myself. XD Of course, I am waiting on a blender for my project.

I make paper with my fourth grade class every year. Construction paper works really well. We use the homemade paper as covers on a little note pad. It doesn’t require folding so we don’t have to deal with the fragile folds. Your paper is really pretty. Thanks for sharing.

Your dog at the back is such a mood! 😂❤️

Thank you for your time. I too have started to make paper. If is a lot of work. And messy. I will make some more The use will be for journals.

firstly, i am in love with your dog! i used to make paper using old tights stapled onto a frame but basically the same method as you. lovely xxx

Hey Jennifer ! This video was so fun to watch since I had just tried my hand out in paper-making. I had used some copy paper and a normal blender and it turned out just fine... I was able to clean it out very easily and there was no paper stuck in the blender. I also used a flat sieve (as a mould) which is easily available where I live. Your idea of using the mesh and duct tape and drying the paper on a window/mirror though, is really cool and I can't wait to try that out next time !

#2 I used sheer curtain fabric, not on with open holes, but sheer one cut into squares bigger the you mold & deckle (try the recycle shops), I stacked them on top of one another, then you put them into a press for around 20-40 minutes, after 5 minutes or so turn down the press, do that a couple of times, and I hung the pages on a clothes line to dry, out of the wind etc., I used my laundry room, or basement. After they are dry I ironed them with a dry iron, this helps to make them stronger, as does the pressing the water out.

I find your videos so relaxing and calming, as well as informative. Also I love the picture of you wearing all those pairs of glasses on your end screen 😂

Very nice video. I appreciate you posting the tries, fails, and successes. Years ago I made Christmas gift tags using cookie cutters. They turned out very cute. I did use a blender (found at a thrift store or garage sale for just a few dollars). I just set window screen above a container of some sort, placed a cookie cutter on top of that and then poured the sludge through it.

I tried this at a few years ago using the picture frame method but I used an old delicates bag from the laundry room for the screen and it was the best decision I made. It made some great paper. Another fun trick I tried was putting some laser jet prints between two thin layers of pulp to make a surprise image when the paper was held up to the light.

This was very informative!

I'm really excited for this video I have a lot of scrap paper and I'm waiting on my deckle to arrive to try this 😍

I boiled the shredded paper to render it into pulp. Very soft and consistent you beaten pulp was very colorful not only because of the various colors, which I hadn’t used but because the beating gave it this appearance. Thank you for your time and knowledgable with this video.

Girl, you made this simple process so much harder than it had to be. Get an old blender, but if you need to buy a new one, get the cheapest one you can find. The frame and window screen is A MUST. It comes out so much nicer with a finer pulp that a blender puts out. It will be night and day the difference those 2 things will make.

ahhh the doggo is so comfortable on the chair

I love the dog in the background 🐶

#197 _I enjoyed this paper making video. Thanks for your patience and hard work. Kudos!_ 😊

Amazing video! Thanks too much. 🌸🙏

I am also gonna recycle old papers and make new papers! I tried this when I was really small and it failed but gonna make again and let's hope getting succeeded :) Your video was really detailed and helpful! Enjoyed watching.....