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Re: Material: Rice Paper?
By:Paul G. Jacobson
Date: 1/15/2002, 12:09 am
In Response To: Material: Rice Paper? (Stephan Bradley)

I get rice paper at the local art supply store, Dick Blick, and in larger sheets, which can be cut down. If you are taping the leading edge to a sheet of regular paper to feed it through the printer, then you can use smaller pieces, so cut it to 10 inches long if you wish. Or, set the printer as if you are using legal size paper (8 1/2 x 14 inches) and you can use larger pieces.

I checked their website (www.dickblick.com) and could not find the same paper they stock near me, however, they had an extensive lsiting of tracing papers, which are tissue papers with a bit more consistency. These may be stiff enough to feed through your printer on their own. If your printer has a single sheet, or envelope feeding slot, try inserting this stuff there, instead of in the the usual stack. The pad of Canson tracing paper was under $3 for 50 sheets (9x12inches -- a bit large, but cheap enough to trim 'em down) The url is

http://www.dickblick.com/zz106/14/products.asp?param=0&ig_id=942

Totally off the subject of rice paper, while checking the online art suppliers I found some nice prices for canvas for SOF projects at www.pearlart.com. They not only had the hard-to find #10 duck ( 14 ounce) they also had an even heavier #8 duck ( 20 ounce fabric) which sounds very appealing.

PGJ

Messages In This Thread

Material: Rice Paper?
Stephan Bradley -- 1/14/2002, 11:41 am
Re: Material: Rice Paper?
Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/15/2002, 12:09 am
Re: Material: Rice Paper? *Pic*
Bill Price -- 1/14/2002, 7:20 pm
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Steve -- 1/14/2002, 6:34 pm
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John Monfoe -- 1/15/2002, 3:43 am
Shooting Star
Steve -- 1/15/2002, 7:54 am
I've never been in the profile area Steve.
John Monfoe -- 1/16/2002, 5:07 am
Re: Material: Rice Paper?
Pete Notman -- 1/14/2002, 3:34 pm
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Jay Babina -- 1/14/2002, 11:45 am
Re: Material: Rice Paper?
Stephan Bradley -- 1/14/2002, 11:56 am