Milton's Big Paper
Milton's Big Paper: "Milton's Big Paper in the Guinness Book of Records.
In Milton on the Sunday of 'The Settler's Fair' 1998 - Oct. 4 - a group of people made the world's largest sheet of handmade recycled paper. The paper was 1.7m x 0.8m in size, about the size of a dining room table. We had a screen (or mould, to use the papermaking term) made from some old materials - a galvanised iron pipe frame with scrap mesh welded and sewn onto it and scrap wood for the lid or deckle that goes on and around the topside of the mould.
We set up a round mini swimming pool in the Milton Cultural Centre's courtyard and added litres and litres of water then litres and litres of waste paper pulp that had been beaten by a kitchen blender and a 1950's electric washing machine.The waste paper came from Deering Street Printers, local businesses and the how-to-vote leaflets from Milton's Polling Centre for the Federal election held on Oct 3. Children added leaves and petals to the pulp.
About 8 of us got into the 'vat' cum swimming pool - Pam Gray co-ordinated the event and Michelle Dunn, Janie Murray, Mitzie McKenzie-King and Christopher, there were other children who'd come to help. We put all the materials together and stirred the pulp with our feet and our hands.Then we all took hold of the mould with the deckle on top and submerged them into the vat of pulp where we were standing.. When we pulled up the mould and deckle with the first sheet of paper on it we weren't happy because it was patchy and uneven.
Our second attempt was fantastic - the pulp was even and it was just the thickness we wanted. We drained all the water off, had lots of photos taken, took the deckle off and then left the mould with the wet paper on it leaning up against the Milton mural on the Chemist's wall to dry in the sun.
Two Shoalhaven councillors, Pam Arnold and Pat Maso"
In Milton on the Sunday of 'The Settler's Fair' 1998 - Oct. 4 - a group of people made the world's largest sheet of handmade recycled paper. The paper was 1.7m x 0.8m in size, about the size of a dining room table. We had a screen (or mould, to use the papermaking term) made from some old materials - a galvanised iron pipe frame with scrap mesh welded and sewn onto it and scrap wood for the lid or deckle that goes on and around the topside of the mould.
We set up a round mini swimming pool in the Milton Cultural Centre's courtyard and added litres and litres of water then litres and litres of waste paper pulp that had been beaten by a kitchen blender and a 1950's electric washing machine.The waste paper came from Deering Street Printers, local businesses and the how-to-vote leaflets from Milton's Polling Centre for the Federal election held on Oct 3. Children added leaves and petals to the pulp.
About 8 of us got into the 'vat' cum swimming pool - Pam Gray co-ordinated the event and Michelle Dunn, Janie Murray, Mitzie McKenzie-King and Christopher, there were other children who'd come to help. We put all the materials together and stirred the pulp with our feet and our hands.Then we all took hold of the mould with the deckle on top and submerged them into the vat of pulp where we were standing.. When we pulled up the mould and deckle with the first sheet of paper on it we weren't happy because it was patchy and uneven.
Our second attempt was fantastic - the pulp was even and it was just the thickness we wanted. We drained all the water off, had lots of photos taken, took the deckle off and then left the mould with the wet paper on it leaning up against the Milton mural on the Chemist's wall to dry in the sun.
Two Shoalhaven councillors, Pam Arnold and Pat Maso"
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