Step 1: Rupture your used paper which you have collected fort his occasion in little pieces (as little as possible)
Step 2: Soak the paper parts in water (for at least one hour, better for a whole day)
Step 3: Mix the pap with your hands and prepare a plastic bowl in which you put a fly-screen to cover the bottom
Step 4: Cats the pap into the plastic bowl on top of the fly-screen
Step 5: Take the fly-screen with the pap on top out of the bowl (you will need a second person to help you with that) and wait till most of the water has drained off
Step 6: Put the fly-screen with the pap on one half of an old blanket, put a clean dishtowel on top and wrap the other half of the blanket around
Step 7: Then tramp around on the blanket to squeeze the water out
Step 8: Turn the whole package carefully around so that the fly-screen is on top and the dish towel below, when you open the blanket
Step 9: Remove the fly-screen and hang the dishtowel to which the pap is glued to and hang it somewhere, or lay it flat on a table to dry
Step 10: Wait for 24 hours or as long as the pap needs to dry
Step 11: When the pap is dry you can easily detach it from the dishtowel
This procedure works the best with newspaper but you can take any kind of paper (just have to make sure that it is really soaked in water before you continue using it. The result will not be printing paper. It will be a lot thicker – more like car.
The color of the paper depends a lot on which color the frazzles have you are using. But you can add color when you water the frazzles. By doing so, you can even produce paper which is green, red, blue etc.
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