Assignment 1 | Paper staining

9/25 | 10 h

For the pages of the book, I want to give them the feeling and texture of an old map. Doing this requires me to learn how to stain paper! I’m not sure if I should stain after or before printing, but I’ve decided to attempt the staining process first to see if it’s something I can even accomplish easily.

I’ve never stained paper before, so I looked up a simple wikihow article on how the process. It didn’t seem too difficult at first, but I find that the process I took make the paper a little bit lighter than I would have liked it to be.

https://www.wikihow.com/Age-Paper-Using-Tea

One for me, one for dad.
Prepped table, ready for staining. All that’s missing is that cup of tea!
Got the tea, got the goods. The first paper staining went pretty well.
And now we wait. Letting them dry overnight!

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