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Post by timartwonis on May 22, 2004 15:06:13 GMT -5
d'histoire, s'il vous plait. I'm doing this project for my history class aobut Sir Isaac Newton and I'm making a bookish type thing/ scrollish type thing with his laws and remakes of the covers of Principia and Opticks and soem equations and I want to make it look old. So I'm going to soak the paper in tea and burn the edges. My questions - In what order should I soak, burn, and write?
- How long should I soak the paper?
- With what kind of tea should I soak my paper in?
Thank you so much...if you help me! And if you have any further suggestions for other things I should include. And please voice your opinion on if you think I should just bind a book of it and If you think I should should I still soak the paper? Please put any suggestions you have. Thanks again!
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Post by timartwonis on May 22, 2004 15:54:15 GMT -5
Nobody is helping. Well...I was bored of waiting so I used Prince of Wales, Red Zinger, and Soothing Lemon...I would have also put cammomile (sp?) but i couldnt find it...
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Post by negativenine on May 22, 2004 17:28:20 GMT -5
I would say, soak, burn, write. Because the ink may run when it soaks, so I definitely recommend soaking before writing. As for burning... well, if you burned before you wrote you wouldn't accidentally burn any text.
As for teas, I'd try something non-herbal. What kind of colours are you getting?
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Post by timartwonis on May 22, 2004 17:29:25 GMT -5
right now its the color of ramen but it smells like raspberry, red zinger, peppermint, lemon, and prince of wales tea
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Post by negativenine on May 22, 2004 17:31:55 GMT -5
That's kind of cool... I want to eat it, now.
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Post by timartwonis on May 22, 2004 17:33:44 GMT -5
i dont know if it would taste that great...it might taste a little papery
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Post by negativenine on May 22, 2004 17:35:46 GMT -5
True, but in that raspberry-lemony kind of way.
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Post by timartwonis on May 22, 2004 17:38:49 GMT -5
that would be yum, like poland spring raspberry-lime seltzer...hehe
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Post by SnicketFires on May 22, 2004 23:17:07 GMT -5
I would reccomend soaking without scrunching, drying, writing, burning. Use a dark tea.
Or, you could broil the paper. Order: Write, broil. To broil: 1. Put your oven on broil, and wait while it heats up. 2. Put your paper on a cookie tray, to improve even colors. 3. Stick tray in oven. 4. Watch the paper! It burns! 5. Remove paper from oven. Let cool.
The result should be brown, toasty paper. Be warned: If you make it too dark, the paper will crumble.
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Post by jack2004 on May 23, 2004 4:45:26 GMT -5
True, but in that raspberry-snickety kind of way. FIXED that for you.
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Post by timartwonis on May 23, 2004 11:48:56 GMT -5
well...my sister kicked me off of the computer and my other one broke and my mom wasn't home so I didn't wanna just go use her laptop cos its a laptop and its a Dell so its expensive and she doest trust me with it so i just went ahead and did it my way- I scrunched the paper, put it in a pasta pot type thing i put my assorted teas in i let it soak for 5 hours took it our, put each paper on one plate with paper towels in betweeen, went to bed, took them off this morning and hung them on the fridge for a half hour took them off and burned the edges, it was very fun but after 3 pages my mom made me stop and not burn till i needed more cos i was making such a huge mess but i cleaned it up cos it was on my dining room table which is glass so it was easy to clean up so i dont know why she made such a huge deal of it
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