Papermaking From Recycled Materials, Including Pop-up Greeting Cards With Circuitry.

By William Van Zyl

Brief outline with some details of this book

*111 size A4 pages (12700 words)

This book will introduce and cover the basics of making handmade paper from recycled paper. The basic tools and equipment required for papermaking are covered. The steps of how to make a sheet of paper are included. Ideas like greeting cards pop-up cards, wrapping paper, and more, are explored and explained. Techniques like adding seeds, doing printing on the paper, colouring and scenting the paper – to name a few – will be discussed.

 From a teaching perspective, the underlying value of these activities will be investigated. For parents and educators, several layers of integrated learning are included in this resource. STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) is explored in the process of papermaking, and the integration of these subject areas are illustrated.

The following areas will also be touched on, namely, global citizenship, sustainability, taking action for the environment, taking social action, entrepreneurship, business opportunities, accounting, and more. These areas are very relevant to teaching in a modern day context. It is practical and focuses on cutting-edge educational practice to date. These layered and integrated aspects will provide a rich educational approach to project-based learning. It includes creating and selling handmade greeting cards with and without circuitry.

Additionally, some very creative techniques for adding value and fun to the papermaking process are introduced. For example, dyes for papermaking (colouring), different paper textures (choice of materials), scented paper and exploring different fibres.

The last section of the book includes pop-up greeting card making. The goal is to plan the papermaking (colours and textures, etc.) for pop-up card making as a second activity. From a scientific and electronics perspective, electrical circuits to the pop-up card will be introduced. For example, led lights, microprocessors, buzzers, switches, and more. Finally, the basic programming of microprocessors will be discussed. The microprocessor will be programmed to light up led lights, make buzzers go, and more. User-friendly interfaces like Micro:bit, Arduino Uno, Picaxe, Arduino LilyPad, and Raspberry Pi are discussed towards the end of the book. Projects like computational books and pop-up books with circuitry with microprocessors and more are included.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Five House Publishing
• Release date: Jun 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9780473438340

William Van Zyl

The author had an interesting and unique childhood. Not travelling abroad - as you would expect - but venturing into the fields, bushes, tools sheds and mysterious underground tunnels around his neighbourhood. His happy place was - and still is - tinkering with ideas, science, and new possibilities. Many times while cycling he will get new ideas; he brings the unexpected, the unique, the creative in a flurry on a page or in a sketch. To this day he dreams of vicious wars and sophisticated weaponry in an innocent child's scout cave. He loves diagrams, timelines, cross sections, sketches, and details of sinister and hidden concepts and ideas; always looking for a new mystery to decode and to encode. He investigates and explores extravagant thoughts which he includes in children's books, stories and articles; he loves to include philosopher’s perspectives, articles,  intriguing stories, and poetry in his writing. Academic and research work are also his forte. He always offers a simple but practical explanation within an engaging context. Not your ordinary thinker! A lifelong scholar and teacher. 

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Copyright © 2018 by William Van Zyl

Papermaking from Recycled Materials, including Pop-up Greeting Cards with Circuitry.

All rights reserved. This book or any portion

thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner

whatsoever without the express written permission of the

publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Published by First House Publishing (New Zealand)

ISBN: 978-0-473-43834-0 

First Publishing, 2018

https://fivehousepublishing.com/

Synopsis:

In this book, the author introduces handmade papermaking from recycled materials. From the equipment required for making a mould and deckle, to techniques for making artistic paper, are all included. The book progresses to pop-up greeting cards (paper mechanics/origami) and then develops ideas around electrical circuits and the programming of microprocessors (make LED lights blink, buzzer, etc.). The handmade paper could be used to create the greeting cards. A digital curriculum combined with organic papermaking - with the title ‘...from computer mouse clickers to computer programmers,’ - are touched on. The book includes STEM, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Maths) & ESSSTEAM (English-creative writing, Social Studies, Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Maths). The author coined the acronym ESSSTEAM in 2018 to include creative writing and Social Sciences (timelines and history/social issues).  This book is a great resource for those teachers and educators who want to include an integrated and layered approach to their teaching.

Additionally, the author has included important educational principles like global citizenship, sustainability, and taking action (social aspect). The book covers most of the trending aspects of integrated learning. It is surely a great resource for teachers, educators, and parents who want to combine an organic (natural) approach (papermaking) with technology (circuits and computer programming).

Paper, Manufacturing, Pappmashce, Silk Paper Making

IMAGE: Handmade papermaking: - Mould and deckle filled with wet paper pulp.

Keywords:

Papermaking, paper drying, paper pulp, couching, paper press, circuitry, copper adhesive tape, LED’s, batteries, mould and deckle, microprocessor, Arduino Uno, Micro:bit BBC, Picaxe, Raspberry Pi, computational books, pop-up card making, greeting card making, nets, sustainability, taking social action, global citizenship, fair trade, paint techniques, STEM Education, STEAM Education, ESSSTEAM Education,  Blockly, Chibitronics

Contents

Synopsis:

Introduction

Brief outline with some details of this book

ABOUT PLANTS AND PAPERMAKING:

IN SHORT: THE PAPERMAKING PROCESS FROM RECYCLED PAPER

ALTERNATIVE DRYING TECHNIQUE: THE IRONING METHOD – WHEN YOU ARE IN A HURRY AND CAN’T WAIT FOR THE PAPER TO DRY

LONGER DRYING METHOD

DRYING THE PAPER ON GLASS: THE SIMPLEST AND MOST ECONOMICAL WAY TO DRY PAPER

Equipment required for papermaking

Supplies for Making Paper:

MAKING A SIMPLE MOULD AND DECKLE FROM USED OR NEW PICTURE FRAMES

You will need:

ADDITIONAL TOOLS YOU WILL NEED:

STEP 1

STEP 2:

STEP 3:

HOW TO MAKE PAPER FROM THE RECYCLED PAPER

STEP 1: CUT UP, OR TEAR THE PAPER (ALTERNATIVELY USE A PAPER SHREDDER)

STEP 2: BLEND IT & MAKE A VAT OF PULP

STEP 3: PULL SOME SHEETS

STEP 4: COUCHING (Pronounced ‘coo-ching’)

STEP 5: ROLLING AND PLYWOOD PRESSING

STEP 6: PRESSING OPTIONS

Option 1: Hand Pressing

Option 2: Board Pressing (stacking)

STEP 6: DRYING TECHNIQUES

Option 1: Quick drying using an iron (if you are in a hurry)

Option 2: Surface Drying (any flat surface will suffice)

Option 3: Exchange Drying (for flat sheets of paper)

Option 4: The No-Restraint Drying Method

Option 5: The Dry on Pellon, or Cloth, method

HOW TO SAVE AND STORE LEFTOVER PULP

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP, REDUCING POVERTY, SUSTAINABILITY, AND TAKING SOCIAL ACTION

WHAT IS FAIR TRADE?

The key principles of fair trade:

More about Trade Aid: Prokritee (Bangladesh) the Art of Handmade Papers:

VIDEO: Prokritee (Bangladesh) the art of handmade papers

SAMPLES OF THE HANDMADE PAPER FROM THE WOMAN IN BANGLADESH:

Fun Projects to Do, Once you Have Mastered the Basics

LIST OF SOME PAINT TECHNIQUES

IDEA: Create a small cardboard box for a gift (nets).

LEARNING ABOUT NETS:

STEM, STEAM, AND ESSSTEAM

EXCITING CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE DESIGN BRIEF:

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH: Tell your story through sculpture or 3-D mode.

MOVING FROM THE BASIC CIRCUITRY TO MORE ADVANCED ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS AND SYSTEMS

ARDUINO PROGRAMMING SETS: