{"id":1237,"date":"2023-10-25T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T08:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/mearnscclassof2028\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2023-10-25T09:51:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T08:51:27","slug":"paper-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/mearnscclassof2028\/2023\/10\/25\/paper-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst completing our Designers pathway, we explored how paper is made and recycled. From this, we decided to try and make our own paper. We soaked old, shredded newspapers for a few days and this formed a pulp. We then poured the pulp and rolled it out flat, letting it dry. We were delighted that this successfully formed paper ! We loved the messiness of this process \ud83e\udee3<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1237 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/mearnscclassof2028\/2023\/10\/25\/paper-making\/img_2838\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"941\" height=\"1260\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/mearnscclassof2028\/uploads\/sites\/18475\/2023\/10\/25094016\/IMG_2838-rotated.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/mearnscclassof2028\/uploads\/sites\/18475\/2023\/10\/25094016\/IMG_2838-rotated.jpeg 941w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/mearnscclassof2028\/uploads\/sites\/18475\/2023\/10\/25094016\/IMG_2838-224x300.jpeg 224w, 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From this, we decided to try and make our own paper. We soaked old, shredded newspapers for a few days and this formed a pulp. We then poured the pulp and rolled it out flat, letting it dry. We were delighted that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/mearnscclassof2028\/2023\/10\/25\/paper-making\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paper making<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mearns-masters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/mearnscclassof2028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/mearnscclassof2028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/mearnscclassof2028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/mearnscclassof2028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/mearnscclassof2028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/mearnscclassof2028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/mearnscclassof2028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/mearnscclassof2028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/mearnscclassof2028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/mearnscclassof2028\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}