Category: Paper

  • Card and cardboard

    Card and cardboard

    This post is to be expanded with examples from other assignments and final logbook See Letter C Corrugated cardboard Using carbon paper is particularly interesting as you cannot tell exactly what you are drawing, and the pen gets stuck in ruts and diverted. Cutting shapes and peeling, then scanning at different exposures and contrast. The…

  • Papermaking: Asian traditional

    Japanese kozo Japanese washi Xuan Paper Korean hanji India and nepal African Bananas

  • Papermaking: handmade

    Clear and interesting but uses quite sophisticated equipment. Uses simple equipment and has interesting additions Artist paper Japanese paper Making a mold and deckle

  • Paper types

    Paper can be produced with a wide variety of properties, depending on its intended use: Printing papers of wide variety. This includes book paper, cartridge paper, newsprint, rice paper, silk paper, rag paper, cotton paper. Writing paper suitable for stationery requirements. This includes ledger, bank, and bond paper. Blotting papers containing little or no size.…

  • Papermaking: industrial

    Sustainable industrial production Stage 1: Raw materials rags wood: hard woods are more stable than sort woods. Recycled fibre:. Mill broke or internal mill waste: this incorporates any substandard or grade-change paper made within the paper mill itself, which then goes back into the manufacturing system to be re-pulped back into paper. Such out-of-specification paper…

  • History of paper

    Source: edited and expanded from Wikipedia The word “paper” is etymologically derived from papyros, Ancient Greek for the Cyperus papyrus plant. Papyrus is a thick, paper-like material produced from the pith of the Cyperus papyrus plant which was used in ancient Egypt and other Mediterranean cultures for writing long before the making of paper in…

  • Paper Sizes

    ISO 216 metric sizes  are the standard for Europe and most of the world outside the US. The ISO 216 system is based on the surface area of a sheet of paper, not on a sheet’s width and length. It was first adopted in Germany in 1922 and generally spread as nations adopted the metric system. A…