PaperMaking from Plants:
Garlic Mustard Paper

I driveway-dried blooming garlic mustard for about a week, cut it and cooked it in soda ash.

It was fiberful and blendered to moderately long fibers. Wet, it appeared olive green, though if I rinsed away the fine microfibers, there were longer tan/gold fibers.

This seems like a pulp that would toughen as the plant ages, so I think I've caught it at the right time. I was impatient so I ironed pressed and semidry sheets that were poured (in the Papyrus 21).

The paper is crisp and sturdy. It is similar to chicory. It is right between blendered chicory and beaten chicory in texture and character and similar in color. I like it.




Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass Dilleniidae
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Order Capparales - Family Brassicaceae - Mustard family
Genus Alliaria Heister ex Fabr. - alliaria
Species Alliaria petiolata (Bieb.) Cavara & Grande - garlic mustard



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