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Rice Paper Sizing
Sizing is to reduce the absorbency of rice paper.
Sizing mixture
| Cooking gelatin 100 g | Cooking alum 50 g | Water 1,250 ml |
How to
- Put cooking gelatin into a jar filled with clear water about half an hour. Heat the jar in boiling water until the gelatin dissolved.
- Take the jar off the hot water and let it cool down little before adding cooking alum. The mixture should taste little bitter. The absorbency of rice paper is determined by the amount of gelatin and alum in the mixture. Test it on a strip of paper for expected result.
- Put a sheet of felt under the rice paper to be sized. This will protect the paper from the sizing brush. Brush the sizing mixture evenly over the surface of the paper.
Sizing for etching
Rice paper for etching should be sized. Sized one will stand rougher handling without fiber lifting.Place the paper to be sized on a board which slopes down to a vessel to collect superfluous liquid. By raising the paper with your left hand at its foot, brush prepared hot mixture onto paper, beginning at the top of the sheet. It is the general practice to avoid wetting the two upper corners, so the fiber at those spots will not give way in lifting.
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