This document provides information about a DIY workshop on making handmade paper that was held in November 2013 in Salt Lake City and sponsored by Cricut. The workshop instructor Brady Burrows explained how to form paper using a deckle box by mixing paper scraps, water, and calcium carbonate in a blender to make pulp, submerging the deckle box and filling it with pulp, and allowing the paper to dry. Attendees also learned how to use a handmade bottle jack press to squeeze excess water from the paper and how to iron dried paper to remove any remaining water. The workshop recommended adding a solid paper scrap on top of drying pulp for visual effect and showed how to print on handmade paper.

1. DIY workshop series

2. handmade paper
artist: lars love letters
november 2013

3. sponsored by cricut
hosted at the mandate press, salt lake city

7. junk mail, newspapers, slug mags…
can be recycled into handmade paper!

9. !
mix a few tbs. calcium
carbonate into blender
+ crumpled paper + water

12. handmade
deckle boxes
(tutorials all over the web)

13. brady burrows explains how to form paper in the deckle box

14. photo 1
275x275
submerge
fill with pulp
swish + dry photo 3
photo 2
275x275
275x275

18. handmade bottle jack press
squeezes excess water out of the paper

20. ironing removes all remaining water

21. !
bonus tip:
add a solid paper scrap
on top of your pulp as it dries
for a cool effect!

22. brady also prints on his handmade paper
www.larsloveletters.com

25. photos + slide deck by gail jessen @ aseriesofadventures.com + Instagram @fourthirtyam
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thanks to cricut for sponsoring & the mandate press for hosting the workshop