Making paper from your own plants

"What if you wrote books on paper you made yourself from your garden?"

Fun to do

You feel the plant fibres between your fingers becoming writing surface. Words on self-made paper have extra weight - as if you're writing on your garden's soul.

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Het moment dat ik de pulp van mijn lupinestengels door het zeefje liet lopen, voelde ik de plantenvezels tussen mijn vingers samenkomen. …

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Three first steps

1Gather suitable plant material like nettles
2Build a simple paper-making frame
3Experiment with different fibres and thicknesses

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