Peeling the first sheets from the dry box

I was excited. I was finally unloading the dry box where the paper that I pulled from the last week had been drying between felts and cardboard (read the last post to see what happened last week). Found ephemera was layered between different paper combinations. Layering these materials while wet and unstable means that I could only make educated guesses as to what it would look like when dried into a paper sheet. Only through experimenting with different pulp combinations and materials was I able to see which was the most successful in interpreting my vision. Abaca and flax, cotton and abaca or flax, two layers of flax or abaca etc.