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Ruined a $60 sheet of handmade marbled paper on my last commission, and here's the fix I figured out
I was casing in a rebind of a 1920s poetry collection at my bench in Portland last week when I brushed the paste too thick and the marbled endpaper wrinkled right at the hinge, so I steamed it loose with a damp towel and a warm iron and redid the whole thing with a thinner wheat paste mix, but now I'm wondering if anyone has a go to paste recipe that holds flat on thin papers without soaking through?
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jordan_patel599d ago
Wheat paste at 3 parts water to 1 flour still soaks through thin marbled sheets, try methyl cellulose instead.
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