Making Paper

This passage details the process a person goes through when making paper.

Lexile Level: 1350L

Categories: Science & Technology


The blender choked and jolted beneath her hands, but she kept the canister top pressed firmly down. Gradually, she increased the speed setting from "chop" to "blend" to "liquify," and the whirring evened out as the newspaper strips were sliced to fine gray bits in the watery mixture. Once the paper pulp looked like a clotted, gray milkshake, she switched the blender off and lifted out the canister. Pouring the sloshy pulp carefully over a sheet of window screen she had stretched over an old picture frame, she smoothed it out with the side of her hand into a thick sheet. Then she flopped a felt cloth over the paper and rolled the heels of her hands across it, squishing the water out of the pulp through the screen. Later she would transfer it to a press, which would expel the rest of the water and make the sides smooth enough to write upon.


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