blogging my heart out...TEXTILES...workshop1...papermaking...BLOCK 2

Here we go again...this time i'm gonna be talking mainly about my activities in textiles class.  We have been doing some pretty cool workshops of late and i thought i could share some of these with you too...

Let me see...to start with we got to try making some paper.  I was particularly interested in this as i'd only ever seen it done on a massive scale before and that was just on the telly, so...

I blended some old random scraps of paper that had already been used and rejected for other purposes, this old paper was mixed with lots of water and then poured into a big bucket, it was not the most appealing of mixtures...it just looked like a big bucket of spew to be honest...I then had to reach into it with a wooden framed fine mesh then turn them out, like a cake from a baking tray, onto absorbent cloths, usually used for cleaning up worktops and such, and then...from this ugly mix i was able to make some lovely paper.

Instead of reusing old paper you can also make paper from just about anything that you can blend, for example fibrous fruits and vegetables and plants or flowers...you can put things into the mix to make it more interesting like whole seeds, stalks, grasses, leafs and pretty petals...

and here is the product of my labour...a layered piece of paper made using lots of small frames and blended paper in 2 colours, then let to dry on top of each other so they fused...

                                                           Not bad for a first attempt?!