Cotton Rag Paper

Well, if the Image Transfer works similarly to Emulsion Lifts, I would say that as long as the paper you're using is completely acid free, you should be set for colorfastness. Now the dyes used in the Polaroid process are somewhat susceptible to UV light, so try to keep it away from black lights and bright light from windows, but all in all, you should be somewhat set.

Normal day to day exposure to the normal indoors amount of light should take a while until fading sets in.

2007-12-12 14:54:53 by Mere Mortal

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Im doing a project about biodegradable and needed to choose 4 products that are biodegradable and explain how each of them benefit the enviornment.

you may check and read the websites listed below:


(esp. the ones about Recycling by Numbers)

2009-02-05 20:37:11 by nikki

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Paper is not made from sawdust it is made from fiber materials including paper scraps, cotton and linen rags, and wood. It involves cooking the pulp and carefully straining the pulp through fine screen bottomed trays. You can find all kinds of web sites on line for making hand made paper but I really don't think is suitable for "old, poor, lonely, aged people" as it involves a fair amount of hardware ($$) and wet work space.

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I have some charcoal drawings that have no real value except sentiment that have been badly water damaged. They are moldy and discolored.

Any ideas on the best way to restore these? They are on a cotton rag paper.

If you want them strictly for sentimental value, I would not attempt to restore the originals. Mold has eaten it's way into the fibres of the paper. Any attempt to get it out will destroy the paper and the drawings. The only things I know of that destroy mold are a light acid solution, or a heavy bleach solution. You can imagine what that will do to the cotton rag paper.

Instead, why don't you scan the drawings into your computer. If you own a photoshop program, you can use that to get rid of the discolorations, and print out nice copies of the originals, which you could then display. If you don't own a photoshop program, at least you will have saved the pictures from being destroyed entirely.

To save as much of the originals as possible, you can place the drawings in strong sunlight to dry out the paper and kill as much mold as will die in sunlight. Then place the drawings in clear plastic sleeves, and keep in a dry place.

2007-02-17 08:05:42 by staceygab

I'm looking to do a bit of drawing and possibly small paintings was wondering what paper is best for mostly sketches and charcoal but occasionally watercolors or paint.

The paper I am looking at is handmade standard 25 weight paper, about the same thickness you find in most copy machine paper.

It is 100 percent recycled materials. The paper is 100 percent cotton rag, waste cotton from a t-shirt factory. Fabric scraps are shredded with a cutting machine and mixed with water until the slurry mixture resembles potato soup in appearance and texture. The slurry is ladled onto a screen with a framed edge so that the paper/water slurry will not spill. The water sinks through the screen mesh, leaving only a cotton sheet. This is hung up to dry and cut to size. Some papers have other fibers pressed in, such as flowers, straw or herbs. The imprint of the screen is clearly visible on the paper.

That paper seems sturdy to me with an old-fashioned feel.

Where it might be fine for a charcoal drawing or sketch, pencil or pastel, it wont hold up under watercolor, it will swell up in the wet areas and when it dries, it will be catiwompas and you won't be able to press it flat.....Now, you might get away with using a paper of 65 lb Weight but not 25 lb.......By the way,....Poundages are calculated by stacks of paper of 500 count.....in other words, if that paper was stacked in a stack of 500 sheets, it would weigh in at 25 pounds so I think you might ought to check to see what the actual paper weighs in at cuz I'm betting it's heavier than 25 lb........Watercolor rag should always be at the very least 40 pound and hot pressed as opposed to cold pressed......cold pressed refers to a paper that has dried without the aid of heat.......hot press is usually a paper that is pressed by rolling it between hot rollers "per sheet" or is rolled on one roll or very long sheet.......that is then cut to size and put in stack and then banded together between plywood and left to cure.

2008-11-05 11:05:32 by Nublet