paste – Hilke Kurzke

Making Paste

Posted on: 05/07/2017 Last updated on: 05/07/2017 Written by: Hilke Kurzke Categorized in: Chitchat

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…

Brade und Winklers Kleisterrezepte

Posted on: 01/10/2010 Last updated on: 01/10/2010 Written by: Categorized in: Review

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…

Kleister

Posted on: 05/08/2010 Last updated on: 05/08/2010 Written by: Categorized in: Chitchat

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…

Paste Paper Tutorial. Part II: Be prepared for moisture and paint everywhere

Posted on: 17/12/2009 Last updated on: 05/07/2017 Written by: Hilke Kurzke Categorized in: tutorial

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…

Paste Recipe / mein Kleisterrezept

Posted on: 02/11/2009 Last updated on: 06/07/2017 Written by: Hilke Kurzke Categorized in: tutorial

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…