Essential Paper Types for Everyday Needs

Essential Paper Types for Everyday Needs

A guide to Its Practical Applications for art and utility purpose. We will also learn names of different wood that is used for making paper.

Here are few most common trees used in paper making process:

Trees whose wood is used for making paper
 include spruce, pine, fir, larch and hemlock, and hardwoods such as eucalyptus, aspen and birch.

Paper making steps

Pulping: The plant fibers are chopped into small pieces and mixed with water to form a slurry. The fibers are then separated from each other and any non-fibrous material is removed through a process called pulping.

Screening: The fibers are screened to remove any remaining impurities and to create a uniform suspension.

Forming: The fiber suspension is spread evenly over a flat screen or wire mesh and the water is drained off, leaving a mat of fibers on the screen.

Pressing: The mat is pressed to remove any remaining water and to form a continuous sheet of fiber.

Drying: The fiber sheet is dried to a certain moisture content and can then be  (smoothed) to produce a flat, smooth sheet of paper.

Finishing: The paper can be finished with various treatments, such as coating or sizing, to improve its properties for specific applications.

We use paper in our daily life in many ways. We use paper for cleaning, packing things, craft work, decoration, gift wrapping, as books, journals. Even in this age of technology paper is indispensable. 

Paper is created in many ways, sizes and shapes. There are many different types of paper that we use. Each paper has its use and has its own name and weight age and density.

Drawing paper : This is a thick white paper used for sketching painting. Being a thick paper this is ideal for charcoal, soft pastels and ink drawings.

Hand made paper:  Hand made paper is made from fibers, recycled paper. This paper is colourful, eco friendly. This paper is used for making cards, poster, decorative bags, gift items.

Tracing paper:  This paper is made using cellulose fiber (wood and cotton fiber). Tracing paper is transparent. This paper was made for engineers and architects so that  they can copy drawings and floor plans easily.

Tissue paper : This is a thin gauzy paper. This is made by using recycled paper pulp. This is used for wrapping items. Cleaning, wiping face. Tissue paper is kept in diners as customers can wipe their fingers and mouth after eating. Tissue paper is around 10-15gsm.

Tissue paper was invented in 1857 by Joseph Gayetty created the world's first commercially sold toilet tissue.

One can create beautiful paintings using tissue paper.

https://youtu.be/0CtR7gq0Aok

Types of paper and their Uses.

 

Packing brown paper : This paper is made of 70% sulfate wood pulp. That is why  it strong and it is used as packing paper. Brown paper is not bleached so this is also eco friendly. This paper is becoming popular as it used as wrapping paper, arts and craft paper and packaging and protecting fragile  objects.

Construction paper.

Construction paper : This paper is also called as chart paper. The paper comes in variety of colours. This paper is used for arts and crafts projects like making flowers, used for decoration purpose, making greeting cards folders etc. This paper weight is around 120-125gsm.

Gift wrapping paper : It is colourful glittering and eye catching. This paper is made from wood pulp. The wood pulp is made from soft boards and then it is bleached. This colourful paper is used as craft making and to wrap gifts.

 In this video you will see how to make your own artistic giftpaper.

Parchment paper : This paper is also called baking paper. Baking paper is the multi-purpose kitchen helper that can be used for several different. This paper is  transparent. This is made of cellulose fibers prepared  from fir trees or cotton or flax plants.

Gloss paper:  This paper is a coated with fine clay. The glossy paper of magazine that we see is coated with white clay called kaolin. The clay is used to fill the spaces between the fibers in the paper and to coat the paper so that it will have a smooth surface. Glossy paper is used for making  promotional materials like advertising, banners flyers and to print photographs.

Countries producing Paper

In the world China is the top paper producing country. producing over 1,07,000 million metric tons of paper each year.

North America is the second top paper producing country in the world. It produces around 70,000 metric million tons of paper each year.

Japan comes number three in the world for producing paper. It produces around 27000 million metric tons of paper each year.

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