We’ve added a product page for the paper drill we sell, and it includes a link to a YouTube video showing its use.
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New Powdered Retention Agent to replace our liquid agents
For many years we carried two products for helping with pigment retention in handmade paper: our Retention Agent and our Scavenger. Both were cationic agents (that is, they developed positive electric charge in water), which attracted them both to the…
Updated listing of available handset type
I just brought home a large lot of new (to me) matrices, mostly Lanston display matrices, and I’ve updated our list of available fonts to include these. Many of these fill in gaps in the sizes for faces already offered,…
Another new pulp: Hemp/Cotton Rag blend
We have a batch (around 150kg) of pulp which is a blend of cotton rag and our raw hemp fibre. The hemp has not been cooked so this is purely a mechanical pulp. It still contains the shives (bits of…
Updated font list for handset type
We’ve recently purchased a large lot of matrices for casting type, and so I’ve updated our font list to match. I’m expecting another equally large influx of mats in the next few months as well, and I’ll update the list…
Price Increases on Abaca Pulp, New Kenaf Pulp
We have recently restocked our bleached and unbleached abaca pulp supplies, and unfortunately due to supply cost increases we are forced to raise the price we sell these pulps for. However, we now also sell kenaf pulp in sheet form.…
New Drying System Size
Almost 30 years ago, when our drying system was first designed, the pulp we were getting from the pulp mills was in sheets around 27×36″ and the drying system was made to these dimensions so the pulp sheets could be…
Back to the old dryer felt
About 2½ years ago we changed our dryer felt because we couldn’t obtain the previous product. Our last roll of this wide thick stuff has run out, but we’ve managed to find a supplier of dryer felt that is more…
(Yet another) Maker Expo Floor Plan Change…
It appears the the Kitchener Aud is hosting a lacrosse tournament just prior to the Maker Expo and won’t have time to take down the rink boards between the two events. As a result there will be less space available…
New Product Photos: Vats and Drying System
We’ve added a couple more pages describing more of our products: Vats which can be used for sheet forming or storage Our restraint drying system, with photos of the one we use in our shop The can also be found…
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