Starch paste is absolutely awesome! It is great because it is so very available, the healthiest glue I know (you can literally eat it) and therefore the best glue to use when crafting with kids. It smells better than most glues, and is – within certain limits – reversable. I have written about paste several […]
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Brade und Winklers Kleisterrezepte
Dieses Buch hat gerade eben (leider nur im Faksimile Nachdruck) meine Hände erreicht: Ludwig Brade und Dr. Emil Winkler, Das illustrierte Buchbinderbuch, Leipzig 1860. Das Exemplar, das ich habe, ist fadengeheftet, in Leinen gebunden, das Papier fällt schön zur Seite, das Buch liegt ordentlich offen – schön! Noch ist es viel zu früh, mehr über […]
Kleister
I posted an English version of this post already as a comment on Flickr. Just click on the photo, and you will find it! Stärkekleister ist etwas ganz wunderbares! Ich mag wie er riecht, er ist absolut ungiftig – schmeckt allerdings ziemlich fad – und wenn man ihn selbstkocht, kann man seine Konsistenz ziemlich gut […]
Paste Paper Tutorial. Part II: Be prepared for moisture and paint everywhere
Welcome back to the second part of my paste paper tutorial. It started with browsing through my stack of paste papers last week. Today I will tell you everything else you need to know to get going. Since this will be a long post, I want to give you an overview over its structure now. […]
Paste Recipe / mein Kleisterrezept
One of the nice things about cooking your own paste is that you can control what properties it will have in the end. About a year ago I experimented with different types of flour for my paste and blogged about it (find it here on my old blog). My main interest in said experiments was, […]