Creating Handmade Paper with Natural Fibers
Cooking, blending and washing the fiber
A course by Camila Moncada (Jáku Papel) , Artisan and Paper Specialist
Joined November 2019
Joined November 2019
About the video: Cooking, blending and washing the fiber
Overview
“In this lesson you will learn the three steps to process the raw material and turn it into a suitable pulp for making paper. Through this process you will obtain separated cellulose fibers with an almost neutral pH. ”
In this video lesson Camila Moncada (Jáku Papel) addresses the topic: Cooking, blending and washing the fiber, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Handmade Paper with Natural Fibers. Learn step by step how to process plants to make handmade paper that you can dye and use to create notebooks.
Partial transcription of the video
“Cooking, Processing, and Rinsing Out the Fiber In this lesson, we will finally process our sunflower stems to obtain pulp for our paper. If you remember from the first lessons, the first thing we'll do is cook them in an alkaline solution to separate the cellulose fibers. Then we'll use a mechanical process to separate them with the blender. First, what you need to do is weigh the raw material. We already have 800 g of sunflower stems here. To weigh it, the first thing we need to do is tare the container and transfer the cut stems to this container. For 800 g, we'll work with 80 g of soda, ...”
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Course summary for: Creating Handmade Paper with Natural Fibers
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Bookbinding, DIY, Fine Arts
Camila Moncada (Jáku Papel)
A course by Camila Moncada (Jáku Papel)
Camila Moncada is the creator of Jáku Papel. She originally studied fine art, although she is currently focused on her studies in physics. What most concerns her is to think through matter about what time is and how it shapes the universe, both from the point of view of art and science.
In 2013, she delved into the world of handmade papermaking from organic waste. She discovered a wealth of possibilities when she realized that paper can be obtained from any vegetable fiber, each one lending their unique qualities to create different kinds of paper. After several years of experimenting, she created Jáku in 2016, a company dedicated to making handmade paper and paper products.
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