
How to Make Handmade Paper
Introduction:
Paper making has been around since the DAWN OF TIME (about 2,000 years).
Paper making has been around since the DAWN OF TIME (about 2,000 years).
The paper making process has been altered many times since 105 A.D. when Ts'ai Lun, a Chinese court official, invented paper. In all probability, Ts'ai mixed mulberry bark, hemp and rags with water, mashed it into a coarse pulp, squeezed out the liquid, and hung the thin mats to dry in the sun. Consequently paper making began humanity's greatest revolution in communications.
Where would we be at without paper? The majority of the information that we have absorbed in the past fifty years has been in written form. What could be more fun than making your own paper by recycling materials from around your home. Everyone can easily benefit from this even those of you who make your own DIY Zines (Stolen Sharpie Revolution: A DIY Zine Resource
Stuff You Need To Find Around Your Home To Make Paper:
- Water
- Paper Bits or Shredded Jeans
- A Sponge
- A Blender
- Felt Squares
- A tub (ex: big tub aware container)
- Mold & Deckle ( Requires some creativity)
The mold is the screen that you'll use to pull your sheets of paper. The deckle is an empty frame that sits on top of the mold to give your paper a shape and nice straight lines. You can buy these at any art supply store or you can make your own.

Option B: For the mold use an intact window screen.
Option C: For the mold use a picture frame and staple gun a screen to it.
Now that you have gathered your supplies lets make some paper!! :>)
Step 1: Shred up some paper, about 1 cup worth and put this in the blender along with 3 cups of water to make the pulp. This is just a rough estimate, you want a pulp that is almost liquid but more of a watery-goo.( You can also make pulp from an old pair of jeans just make sure they are shredded into tiny, tiny pieces. Jeans are mostly used to make construction paper.)


You can also pour the pulp onto the screen but make sure to still have a tub to catch the excess.






