PRODUCTION OF PAPER

MATERIALS:

Water Paper scraps

Sponge Basin

EQUIPMENT:

Mold & Deckle Mortar and Pestle

Wool blankets

PROCEDURE: (Liu, H. Wang, and L. Hui, “Pulping and Papermaking of Non-Wood

Fibers,” Pulp Pap. Process., pp.3–32, 2018, doi: 10.5772/intechopen.79017 or available at

https://books.google.com.ph/books?hl=en&lr=&id=1sEp3rtK994C&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&

dq=paper+making&ots=IItEcCG4pX&sig=nboauBmEzDb8-xx5-

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1. Make sure that the paper scraps are cut in small pieces and needed to be soak

overnight.

2. Using the mortar and pestle, the soaked paper scraps are being pounded and

grinded to turn into a pulp.

3. Fill the basin with water and drop the pounded pulp in there. You can add other

elements depend on the persons’ creativity to design a paper.

4. Stir your basin with water and pulp

5. Hold the mold screen side up at an angle of 45 degrees and place the deckle

evenly on top.

6. Dip the mold and deckle to the bottom of the basin and scoop up, holding the

mold and deckle horizontally.

7. Give it a quick shake back and forth, and left to right to align fibers and make a

more uniform sheet. Stop shaking before the sheet is fully drained. Let the water

drain to a drip.

8. Transfer the wet sheet from the mold to a flat, absorbent surface.

9. Remove the deckle from the mold and in one swift motion, the mold would be

face down, press down and lift from the initial edge.

10. With a sponge on top of the freshly couched sheet, press gently at first, then

press firmly with as much pressure as possible.

11. After pressing, peel and hang up the cloth that you’ve couched onto and hang

on a cloth line. Once the paper is dry (1-2) days, peel down carefully the newly

produced paper.

12. Then it is now ready for packaging