This post is slightly off topic from what I usually announce here, but after a discussion on the Yahoo Papermaking group about pouring paper, I had a few queries off list about how I built my mold. So here is a brief explanation with some images that will hopefully make it clearer for others. Above and below this text you can see images of the front and back my prototype pouring mold - the one that is about 5 feet long by 2 feet wide. The door behind it below can help give you a sense of scale.
Above this is a image looking through the mold from the front (or top). The mold is designed to create slow drainage, and so is lined first with screen print mesh (220 screen), then window screening, then egg crate for support. Below is a detail looking from the back (bottom) to the front. You can kind of see the U-shaped hook I used to attach the egg crate.
Below are two details of how the wood support for the egg crate are screwed in. You can also see the U-shaped hook a little clearer.
Hope this helps some fellow papermakers out there! Feel free to pass this blog link along. For an image of the bigger mold in use, please take a look
here. To see images of some of the poured paper I've done, visit
here and
here.
These are some preview images of my upcoming installation Reverse Archaeology at the Life Is Art Foundation in Santa Maria, CA. To read the project statement, please visit here.
