Anyone Making Handmade Paper?

Can it be made acid free?

Or do you need to use the archival mist?

ARTEMIS

When you "make paper" you are actually just recycling paper, so if you use acid free paper, your end result should also be acid free. If you are in doubt about the acidity of your paper you can test the slush with litmus paper. Peggy

Well, some people do make homemade paper from "scratch," but it's a laborious process involving heat, pounding of plant fibers and unpleasant chemicals. But yes, most people who made homemade paper go the much easier route, turning macerated paper back into pulp and proceeding from there.

I've read that you can neutralize the acid in the recycled version of homemade paper by adding a mild alkali - calcium carbonate is apparently the usual choice - to the pulp; I don't know how much, but I'd imagine it would be fairly easy to figure amounts by trial-and-error, using litmus paper as Margaret suggests.