Summer is here and we have made use of this glorious day to set up the sun screens, using old boat Jibs. Aaron will be pleased about that I am sure. We are going to have a paper making workshop on Tuesday, and with the weather being hot all of a sudden, we decided to do this labour intensive work early in the morning. I first walked to the highway to get our weekend paper (with my weekend fix of the big cross word puzzle). By
8 I was home again and we rigged everything up, indeed with block and tackle....The big picknick table was moved in the shade under our jibs sun screen. Now I have to do some trial runs of paper making, it has been a while. A friend gave me a large bag of very very old 100 % linen table cloths and bed linens. I have sat with it a whole evening ripping it up. We have snipped it into wee tiny bits, and put it through the kitchen machine to get the pulp. I will boil it up today and do a trial of one piece of linen paper. Was wondering if it needs a binder to stay together. So far reading all the books and material I have gathered I have not found anything pointing in that direction. Paper making is a bit like felting without the agitation part. There are all kinds of wonderful things you can do to home made paper, add flowers and plant materials, embossed it with your name made out of wire or with an old piece of lace. I am sure we are going to have fun with this.
If any of you have any good advice I would love to share it.
Have a great weekend, with lots of sunshine and relaxed put up your feet times
Els