PaperMaking from Plants:
Echinacea Paper

Echinacea, blendered, made a so-so paper.

This was both over-wintered (as in left out in the elements) and fall-gathered (stored in plastic) stalks. They were chipper-shredded, cooked in soda ash.

It required intense blendering--long blender time. The longer the time in the blender, the better, though on seeing this, I didn't waste much time continuing to do this.

The sheets came out better than I expected. Pulling a consistent sheet was hard. Pouring one was easy. This could have been abetted by some formation aid, but for this first time , I didn't want to help it, as much as figure out what it required. Formation aid would have made pulling easier.

The wet pulp color was golden like straw and timothy, but it dried to a paper less yellow than either of these.

Beating this may greatly improve it.

A lye cooking may make blender use sufficient.

My next effort will be to beat it.




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