So, this was awesome!!!
Apologies if the title was misleading, I did not in-fact recycle my own jeans for this one. I promise to do it in the near future because I have a pair of 501 jeans that need to be retired. This papermaking sesh started off with the intent to make some plain bleached flax sheets, but within the first four pulls, I was struggling to get the multi-hour beaten flax off of the deckle and onto the pelon. It was a battle I was not prepared for on this day. Laziness got the better of me and I decided to blend the denim fibers I had laying around. I tossed the mix into the vat and pulled a few sheets before everything was mixed together evenly. I am so excited by these results. I managed to get some interesting patterns and the thicker sheets came off the deckle, no problem.
