Week 13: Update

For today’s class, I remade and reremade the deckle due to the size limit of the water container. What goes beyond my expectation is the metal net doesn’t work well — it was sent to me as a roll so it is even more uneven than the nylon net. Therefore I remade the deckle with nylon net. 

When making the thick liquid, I added some purple pigments in it to experiment. First I poured the water to the line near 1400, but after blending the paper and water together, the volume went down and the thicker liquid was too thick, so I added more water to 1400ml again. The first piece of paper I filtered was super good, however, it was still too wet and easy to be broken when I tried to peel it off. But the new towel and sponge worked pretty well and I got the first paper kind of perfect (despite the leftovers in the marginal area and I am always taking small pieces off it…). But when I tried to make the third piece, it is too broken. I think it might be because the net is not clean enough/ the thick liquid in the container already starts to subside. 

Below the order of the picture is mainly the steps.

a brand new deckle! (though I recut it later…) – paper shredders – 1400ml – water amount in the container – toooo thick – more water to 1400ml again – ✅- almost perfect first paper – leftovers on margins – terrible third paper

 

 

For the following days, I am going to test different kinds of paper: 

1. See if the color on the original paper will make a difference on the remade paper
2. If not, maybe use pigments
3. Add different things on the paper, e.g. leaves, and see if I can print something on the paper produced (like in the tutorial video)
4. If enough paper, see the make of notebooks/postcards
5. Try to see if I can make a certain kind of material that can be applied in other use with remade paper

 

Update:

After around 6 hours I go to check my paper. It is still not fully dry but can be peeled off pretty easily. I also found that after using the iron to dry it, the color will get lighter (not because it is drying but almost white in fig.3). Though it is still broken, the quality of the two full paper is pretty well in general.