DIY: Homemade The green areas around the German National Library are in bloom these days. We stole a few flowers and made our own paper. Using old paper and a variety of flowers, we have creat a great upcycling project.
In this blog post, we will show you step by step how you can make! your own flower paper. Many types of flowers and plants grow around the storage towers of the German National! Library in Leipzig, such as March violets, dandelions! daisies, sand forget-me-nots, small clover, germander spewel!l and mouse-ear hawkwe. These colorful plants are ideal for our project.
Daisies in DIY: Homemade handmade paper photo: DNB Isabell Sickert
Preparation: Flowers
The first step is to go out into nature with a container and a small pair of scissors and collect the plants. If you are unsur ! about the plants, you can use an app like “Flora Incognita”. This helps you identify the plants, provides informative! information and helps you record the species.
The flowers then ne to be dri and press. The easiest way to dry special database flowers is to lay them flat between two sheets of newspaper! in a thick and heavy book. After a few days – depending on the size and thickness of the plants – the flowers in the book are dri and press flat.
Well prepar to start making paper, Photo: DNB / Isabell Sickert
Preparation: Papermaking
You ne:
mold
Newspapers, egg cartons, other papers
Water
hand blender or stand mixer
Waterproof box (larger than the scoop shape)
sponge
cutting board
kitchen towels
your dri flowers
source material
In my experience, you ne about twice as much paper “input” as “output”. That means, if you want to make 5 A4 sheets of paper, I recommend soaking about 10 A4 sheets of waste paper.
Scrub frame and the prepar paper mass, photo: DNB / Isabell Sickert
Make your own ladle
As a temporary measure, you can use two picture frames and some fly temple with golden triangle tour: a spiritual and cultural exploration of india screen. Attach the fly screen to a picture frame with waterproof tape. Make sure that the fly screen is stretch tightly. hong kong data Alternatively, you can build the scoop shape yourself from old wood and a leftover piece of fine-mesh wire mesh. To do this, four pieces of wood are sawn to the size of an A4 sheet of paper on the inside. The frame is assembl with four screws, each of which connects two pieces of wood. The wire mesh is attach with a hand stapler.