Handmade Paper Flattening

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Part of the video series: Making Handmade Paper

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Flatten your dried handmade paper by pressing it under a phone book. Learn other finishing techniques with tips from a crafts expert in this free paper making video.

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"OK after your paper has already dried, you can pull up the end product and very gently get one edge and run your hand under it, and it comes right up. Voila, the finished product! A lot of times I will lay it under a phone book or something to help flatten it out cause it tends to warp a little. Pull this one up, very gently so it doesn't tear. There we go. Flatten it out. And I made some double sided paper. This is still just a tad damp so be very, very careful. There we go. Yellow on one side, purple on the other. Isn't that pretty? And if you mess up and tear it, you can put it right back into your pulp mixture, no problem. See, it's very easy and that's the finished product."