|
Papermaking
By Joseph (Grade 4)
At
our school we made Japanese style paper. First we got the
inner bark of a tree called, phloem. We cut it up; it was
very stiff - just ask Christian or me. Then our teacher,
Pam, washed it and boiled it in a crock-pot for 24 hours
with water and soda ash. The next day we mashed it up with
a wooden masher, believe me, it was tiring! The bark smelled
bad and took a long time to mash but in the end we had paper
pulp.
Then
we put the pulp in water and added neri. The neri felt just
like snot! It made the water more viscous. We put a paper
mold in our mixture, brought it up slowly and let the water
drain out. We took off the frame and pressed the mold on
the felt hard and took it off like a door. Then we hung
the felt up to dry and we had paper!
This
is the first step. When Pam poured a whole bunch of bark
from a tree and told us that we are going to make paper,
I said, " This is impossible." I was excited but
confused. All the steps were fun. When it came to the time
that we were going to make our own paper the news came to
see what we were doing. Our classmate Michael got to be
the star on the news. When it was my turn to make paper
I picked the color pink. The water was very cold, it felt
like the ocean.
Alisha
This
is a picture of my friend Tatiana cooking the bark to make
it soft. We cooked the bark for 24 hours. By Za'Kari
Here
are my two classmates, Dalijah and Tatiana mashing the bark
to get pulp so we can make paper. It was messy and it stinks
and it was hard work. I didn't think it was going to be
paper until I tried it and it was real fun. I wish I could
do it every day so I could draw on it. By Rudy
This picture shows Mark holding down a wooden mold that
holds the paper fiber.
You have to shake it a little bit and then you push it down
on a felt as hard as you can.
By Tazon
Hello, this is my friend Charlene. This is the 7th step
of papermaking. The thing that she is holding is called
a mold. It holds the fiber for the sheet of paper. Hope
you enjoy, Beth
Datwann, Pam, and Jamiesha where pressing the wet paper
on to a felt to dry.
It was thin and you could see the fiber in the rice paper.
By Mildred
In this picture Dalijah is hanging up the paper that we
made so it can dry.
|
