Thames & Kosmos Recycled Paper Press Manual

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Let’s Get Started!

Your homemade paper will be 100% recycled. As

your raw material, you will just need newspaper,

toilet paper, paper towels, or paper napkins.

Also get your other required equipment ready: an

old bowl, as shallow as possible, or a plastic basin,

and an old cotton cloth (e.g., a dishcloth).

Tear a sheet of newspaper or several sheets of

paper towels in the smallest pieces you can, and

put them in an old bowl or a basin. Add about one

liter of warm water. If you like, you can also add a

spoonful of powdered laundry detergent, which

will make the paper a little brighter.

Lay the screen insert into the paper molding tray,

and place one of the pieces of netting on top of it.

Thoroughly stir the ﬁber pulp one more time

and completely submerge the tray in the bowl or

basin. Now lift the tray, keeping it as horizontal as

possible, up to the surface of the thin pulp, and try

to distribute the paper ﬁbers as evenly as possible in

the tray by carefully rocking it back and forth. Now

you can pull the tray completely out of the basin.

Now lay the second piece of

netting on top of the paper pulp

in the paper molding tray and

stroke the yellow pressing tool

over it. This pushes the water out

of the paper pulp and compresses

the paper ﬁbers.

When you can’t push any more

water out, tip the tray over a dry

cloth and push the screen out of

the frame.

Release the screen insert. Now take the press-

ing tool again and press your paper between two

pieces of cloth.

Finally, you will have to carefully pull away the

two pieces of netting. It might take a little practice.

Now your homemade paper will just need a little

time to dry.

This is how you can gradually work through your

paper pulp until it is all used up and you have made

many sheets of paper.

If your ﬁrst result doesn’t quite measure up to what

you’re expecting, try it again! You’ll soon get the

hang of it with a little practice.

Tip:

The ink in newspaper will turn the paper grey.

If you want to make brighter paper, just use the

unprinted edge of the paper. Paper towels or white

paper napkins will also produce bright paper.

Additional Items

Plastic bowl, cotton cloths (old dishrags or similar

rags), powdered laundry detergent, water, hand

mixer, newspaper, paper towels, toilet paper,

napkins, and other scrap paper

Instructions

Warning! — This set contains chemicals

that may be harmful if misused. Read cau-

tions on individual containers carefully. Not

to be used by children except under adult

supervision.

Only for use by children 8 years of age and

older. Use only under careful supervision

of adults who have familiarized themselves

with the kit’s written safety precautions.

A Note to Parents and Supervising Adults

Please stand by your child’s side in the

paper-making process, providing support

and company to him or her as needed.

Read through the instructions together

before beginning the experiments, and

follow them. Please be sure that no small

pieces get into the hands of young chil-

dren. Provide your child with any required

household items that are not contained in

the kit, and encourage your child to repeat

an experiment if the initial results don’t

meet expectations.

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Layout and design: komuniki – Michael Schlegel, Würzburg; Text: KOSMOS; Photos:

VDP – Verband Deutscher Papierfabriken e.V. [Association of German Paper

Manufacturers, Inc.]

® Thames & Kosmos is a registered trademark of Thames & Kosmos, LLC.

Translation: David Gamon; Editing: Ted McGuire; Additional Graphics and Layout:

Dan Freitas

Distributed in North America by Thames & Kosmos, LLC. Providence, RI 02903

Phone: 800-587-2872; Email: support@thamesandkosmos.com

Printed in China / Imprimé en Chine

Caution! — Dye tablets: The dye tablets are non-

toxic, but as a precaution they should not be

ingested. Avoid contact with eyes and mouth.

Before You Start

Find a quiet work area and cover the work surface

so that any accidentally spilled water won’t cause

any damage. The ink from the newspaper and resi-

due from the dye tablets can cause stains too.

Keep small children and animals away from the

work area.

Basic Paper-Making InstructionsContents

Paper

molding tray

with removable

screen insert

(You will ﬁnd the screen

beneath the package’s

red plastic insert)

2 Pieces of

Netting

Yellow Pressing

Tool

4 Dye Tablets

(These are non-toxic

watercolors)

String

Thoroughly stir this paper pulp together and let

it stand for a few hours, ideally overnight. If you

want ﬁner paper, let an adult help you break up the

paper into smaller pieces with a hand mixer. If the

ﬁber pulp is too thick, add a little more water.

Experiment 5:

Designs with

Colored Piece

of Paper

To make this

design, scatter

ﬁnely-shredded

pieces of napkin

on the paper pulp

before applying

the second piece

of netting. They

will also soak

up water and

dry along with

the paper.

Once you have mastered the basic paper-making

process, you can try all these variations to create

your own unique, personalized paper designs.

Experiment 1: Colored Paper

Dissolve a dye tablet in a cup of water and add the

colored solution to the paper pulp. This will give

you paper with a delicate shade of color. As an

alternative, you can use colored napkins for your

paper pulp. That will give you a stronger color. Cau-

tion! The colored paper pulp can stain things! Only

use old cotton cloths to press it out.

Experiment 3: Textured Paper

Press a stamp onto the freshly made paper (use a

pre-made stamp or invent a design with a nail or a

screw). Use anything

that has a raised

shape. Try it with

a ﬂuted or corru-

gated glass rolled

over the pressed

paper.

Experiment 6: Pattern Paper with

Napkin Pieces

Cut a design out of a paper napkin and lay the up-

per layer on the smoothed paper pulp. The napkin

piece will soak up water and dry along with the

paper.

Experiment 8: Greeting Cards

If you have made a selection of various kinds of

paper, you can naturally combine these with one

another. Try it with some homemade greeting cards

for your friends’ birthdays or design your own invi-

tation cards for a party. Use your imagination!

The History of Paper

The word “paper” goes

back to the writing

material called papyrus

(around 3,000 BC), which

was made out of the pith

of the papyrus plant.

The stalks of the papyrus

reed were beaten ﬂat,

pressed, and laid cross-

wise. The ﬁrst report of

usable paper comes from

a Chinese history book.

According to that book,

in 105 AD the Chinese

ofﬁcial Ts’ai Lun reported

to the emperor that he had succeeded in creating

paper from bark, hemp, old rags, and ﬁshing nets.

In the 8th century, the Arabs learned from cap-

tured Chinese prisoners how to make paper. Paper

moved west 200 years later with the Arab military

campaigns, ﬁrst to Egypt and Syria, and then North

Africa and Spain. The ﬁrst paper mill is documented

in Italy in 1256. The ﬁrst German paper mill was the

“Gleismühl” in Nuremberg, which started produc-

tion in 1390. The owner at that time made his work-

ers swear an oath to keep the art of paper-making

a secret. The ﬁrst American paper mill was built

around 1690 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Today,

about a third of all the paper in the world is made

and consumed by the United States.

In the Paper Factory

In today’s industrial

paper production,

raw materials (wood

ﬁbers, recycled

paper, ﬁllers, and

water) are mixed

into a homogenous

pulp in a pulper,

which is a kind of

giant stirring bowl. This thin pulp is taken from the

supply vat onto a movable screen. The movement

helps the ﬁbers to intertwine as tightly as possible.

In the process, most of the water runs off. Then, the

web of soaked paper comes to the press. The paper

web is guided through rollers in an absorbent felt

cloth and the rest

of the water is

thereby removed.

This pressing

process makes the

paper structure

denser and ﬁrmer.

Then, the paper

web runs through

heated drying

cylinders. Finally,

it is smoothed and

rolled up.

Paper Recycling

Most of the paper manufactured today comes from

trees. By recycling paper, we can reduce the number

of trees that are cut down to make paper pulp.

Paper recycling starts by collecting paper. There

are three sources of paper for recycling: mill broke,

pre-consumer waste, and post-consumer waste. Mill

broke is paper scrap from paper production that

hasn’t even left the paper mill yet. Pre-consumer

waste is discarded paper that has not been used by

people yet, for example, the scraps left over from

turning paper into books. Post-consumer waste is

paper that has been used by people and is no lon-

ger needed.

These three types of paper are collected by

various recycling programs and sold back to paper

mills that recycle it using a large-scale version of the

paper making process you used in this kit.

Only about 33% of new paper is made from re-

cycled paper. A lot of paper still goes into landﬁlls.

It is important for you to sort your household trash

and make sure all paper goes in the recycling bin!

The explorer Marco Polo

reported on the wide-

spread use of paper money

in China in 1298, and that

there were already paper

handkerchiefs then.

A complete

paper web in a

paper factory can

be up to 35 miles

long?

Around 360 mil-

lion tons of paper

are used every year

worldwide, and the

per capita paper con-

sumption in the U.S. is

about 700 pounds?

Experiment 7: Pattern Paper with

Flowers

Lay ﬂower petals or ﬂat blades of grass onto the

paper pulp before applying the second piece of

netting. That will create beautiful and surprising

effects as well.

Experiment 4: Bleed

Pattern with Watercolors

If you paint a pattern onto fresh, still-wet paper, it

will produce a really cool effect. The colors create

beautiful designs as they run and bleed through

the wet paper.

Experiment 2: Paper with a Watermark

Make a design (for example, your initials) by laying

the string on the paper pulp when it is in the mold-

ing tray, before placing the second piece of netting

on top. When it is pressed, the paper will be a little

thinner and more translucent in that spot. Carefully

remove the string before drying. You can see the

watermark particularly well if you hold the paper

up to the light.

Experiment 9: Make Your Own Book

Here’s a great gift idea: As soon as you have made

several kinds of paper, you can easily combine them

into a book. Make holes in all the sheets of paper

and stack them on top of one another. Place a

specially designed cover sheet on top. Tie the sheets

together with a piece of ribbon or yarn. You could

use your book as a small photo album, for example.

Paper-Making Experiments About the History of Paper Making and Paper Recycling

Did You Know? Paper Facts

Paper accounts for

more than a third of

all recycled materials

in the U.S.

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