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| I had no clue dung could be used to make paper. |
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| No that's one large roll of paper. |
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| Now it's time to make paper so we're off to the lab |
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| First we look at a wall of examples to see what we would like our paper to look like. |
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| We can choose from office waste or Sunday comics. Then we choose a couple slips of colored paper to give the paper an overall color and a design feature if we wanted. |
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| Oh so many choices. Nolan picks Sunday comics, added blue paper and an "N". I chose office waste, a pink color and glitter. |
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| First we tore all the paper into 1" squares and put the squares in the cup. We filled the cups with water. |
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| Water and paper went into the blender. |
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| How your paper looks depends a lot on how long you blend it. We each chose 15 seconds. |
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| The blended mixture was poured onto a screen with boxed edges. |
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| We shook the boxes a little to try to get the pulp to spread out evenly. |
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| Nolan's mixture after draining off water. |
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| Mine after draining off water. |
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| Mine with box removed. |
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| Nolan's with box removed. |
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| Then we put a fine screen over the top of the paper and sponged off as much water as we could. |
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| Then we removed the screens.... |
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| put on some absorbent cloth called couch... |
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| carefully put a board on top and pushed down as hard as we could. |
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| Well that's as much water as we could manually get out of it so it's off to... |
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| the press that could put on a lot more pressure to get the water out. |
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| Out of the press and onto the hot press. I think the temperature was 275 degrees F |
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| Our completed paper. From this photo you can't see the details of Nolan's "N" or the sprinkles in mine but they're there. |
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