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Hello everyone,

I just stumbled upon a German paper supplier at http://www.modulor.de. I would like to know if anyone here on the forum has made any experiences with them yet?

(By the way they also deliver to all of the other EU countries for slightly higher delivery fees.)

Their product range is looking too good to be true really. Here's a small selection of their products:

• normal 10x10cm and 15x15cm origami papers (single side color, both sides colored, foils, even some special Japanese kinds)
• 50cm x 10m rolls of colored foil (it says 'Alubastelfolie' or 'alukaschiertes Papier' - is that the real deal?)
• various tissue papers including:
  • normal tissue ('Strohseide') in very cheap 5m rolls
  • mulberry tissue ('Strohseide Silk mit Fasern') even as large as 1m x 5m rolls
  • banana tissue - anyone tried that?
• handmade 150g/m2 paper(Khadi Hadernpapier) (expensive though)

And to top it all of they even sell pure methyl cellulose (Bastelkleister Methylzellulose) in small 50g portions.


I'd also like to know if any of you guys tried this 'Khadi' paper before. As it is very expensive with 3-4EUR per sheet I don't feel like ordering a bunch of it to try it, but I guess it should be really good for wetfolding?

Also I'm currently making my papers with a spray glue and normal tissue papers (Stroh- oder Blumenseide), sometimes with foil in-between if I need something stronger. I recently came upon some mulberry tissue and found it to be far superior (albeit slightly more expensive) and now I'm wondering if I should switch to the MC-treating method instead. Can any of you MC guys give me some indication how much you get out of those 50g bags of MC? Do you have to use it all up in one session and roughly how many sheets (sized somewhere around 30x30 to 50x50) can you glue together with that? (or do you just treat a single sheet with MC to strengthen it?)


Sorry for the long read, but I was quite surprised by that shop and it kinda makes me want to order all those papers (but my bank account says I should make a more informed order of those things I really can make good use of )
Also I haven't seen a good origami supply online shop for Germany yet. So far I ordered my stuff from all kinds of different sources (including a strange shop which sells all kinds of material for school teachers)

Modulor is the shop where I usually buy my tissue... I do always buy blumenseide for making tissue foil. the paper I bought was always of very good quality and they packed it very well. the only bad part about them is, that they have a minimum order quantity of 40 euros, what in my special case is ok, because I just wait till I have enough to order
I highly reccomend this shop, but don't know if they do deliver abroad.

With 50g MC you can glue a lot of sheets together. Remember, MC doesn't weight that much. If you want to be sure just google for the weight of kleister or mc. I think i used one or two "schnapspintchen" and 400 or 500ml water for a rather thick mc solution.

Greetings,
max

ps.: sorry for the german words in the text, but this time i was just to lazy to translate them all.

ps.: sorry for the german words in the text, but this time i was just to lazy to translate them all.

in the time you took to type this, you could have translated at least one of the german words in the text [img]http://freenet-homepage.de/origamichris ... _quiet.gif[/img]

What the heck is a "schnapspintchen"? Is it as much as a teaspoon?

lol, sorry but i tried to look it up. it seems that i only know the reginal dialect word for the tiny glasses in which drinks of high alcohol content are served.

@Chris, i took the time to ask one translater about the word mentioned above. for more i was too lazy and also didn't have the time. [img]http://freenet-homepage.de/origamichris ... _quiet.gif[/img]

maybe you should not search for very outdated very german slang words
a pintchen is a very small glass... today you would say Schnapsglas, it has the same size (2cl).

@Chris, i took the time to ask one translater about the word mentioned above. for more i was too lazy and also didn't have the time.

in the time you wrote this you could have done a deeper search for Schnapspintchen [img]http://freenet-homepage.de/origamichris ... ofl0ne.gif[/img]

TheRealChris wrote:in the time you wrote this you could have done a deeper search for Schnapspintchen

...actually I tried, but the two pictures that showed up on the Google image search weren't very helpful and neither Leo nor Wikipedia did know it.

Oh, and thank you for the explanation