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Largest Paper
Posted: February 13th, 2011, 4:39 pm
by cranemaster366
What is the largest paper you have folded/bought/found? Try to include the type/brand of the paper, the size, and where you found it.
For me, it is a 72" roll of clearprint tracing paper. It is easy to find with google.
Posted: February 15th, 2011, 6:41 am
by kevin89
the lartgest I've bought is about 50 inches by really-frikkin-long, and it is normal paper (I think its the same as computer paper) and I bought it at a teacher supply store for Ronald Koh's King Cobra
Posted: February 15th, 2011, 6:53 am
by redheadorigami
65cm by 400m
Posted: February 15th, 2011, 7:53 pm
by Rdude
12 feet by 12 feet - Nguyen Hung Cuong's Eagle. The paper was made by attaching 3 strips of 4 feet by 12 feet paper together into a square. the finished model has a wingspan of 1.3 meters.
paper size
Posted: February 16th, 2011, 2:44 am
by EricGjerde
Recently I've been making paper on a large mould and deckle at a friend's paper studio.
The mould itself is about 8 feet x 2.5 feet, or 250cm x 75cm.
Folding sheets of handmade paper that hard is difficult!!! I can't imagine dealing with much larger sizes...
where do you buy them?
Posted: February 26th, 2011, 7:43 pm
by camicazi
where do you buy them?
Posted: February 27th, 2011, 1:45 am
by cjbnc
I regularly use kraft paper that comes in 2ft and 4ft wide rolls. Pacon Fadeless is one brand, Rite Co Inc Raydiant is the other. Both are white paper, colored on one side with water-resistant ink. The paper itself is 50lb Kraft (about 75gsm), roughly the same weight and strength as standard copier paper. It's nothing fancy, nor anything too expensive either.
http://www.pacon.com/paper_products/fadeless/
http://ritecoinc.com/index.php?option=c ... &Itemid=56
I buy it from a local school supply store in Raleigh, NC. Pacon's website above has a store locator tool that might help you for other parts of the US. Or, I've seen online retailers.
Posted: March 3rd, 2011, 4:15 pm
by BrooksHalten
cjbnc wrote:I regularly use kraft paper that comes in 2ft and 4ft wide rolls. Pacon Fadeless is one brand, Rite Co Inc Raydiant is the other. Both are white paper, colored on one side with water-resistant ink. The paper itself is 50lb Kraft (about 75gsm), roughly the same weight and strength as standard copier paper. It's nothing fancy, nor anything too expensive either.
http://www.pacon.com/paper_products/fadeless/
http://ritecoinc.com/index.php?option=c ... &Itemid=56
I buy it from a local school supply store in Raleigh, NC. Pacon's website above has a store locator tool that might help you for other parts of the US. Or, I've seen online retailers.
I just bought a roll of ritecoinc paper from Hobby Lobby. I'm going to fold Takashi's Aquarius. Paper that size is always so hard to control :/
Does adding mc make it not as "floppy" and hard to work with? I've never used the stuff, but I'm considering it very much.
Posted: March 4th, 2011, 12:52 am
by cjbnc
BrooksHalten wrote:Does adding mc make it not as "floppy" and hard to work with? I've never used the stuff, but I'm considering it very much.
I don't think it would help much. The paper is already heavy enough that the little bit of extra strength from the MC wouldn't make much difference. That said, I've not tried it.