{"id":1120,"date":"2015-12-08T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2015-12-08T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T15:43:00","slug":"paper-making-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/2015\/12\/paper-making-in-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"Paper making in the lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April the Provost Office awarded the lab funds to purchase paper making equipment through the Third Century Faculty Research Materials Grant.\u00a0 Over the next six months the lab intends to establish a workflow for paper making so that we may begin producing our own archival quality papers for conservation treatments.\u00a0 With the grant monies we purchased a Hollander beater in July, and yesterday the other pivotal piece of equipment arrived, a hydraulic press.\u00a0 The beater masticates fibers, that with water, create a fiber slurry that is poured into a mould.\u00a0 Each mould forms a single sheet of paper that is then pressed to remove the excess water &#8211;\u00a0 further bonding the fibers and creating a smooth surface.<br \/>\nMore information as we begin our experimentation!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/blogs\/bookandpaperlabs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/08\/Beater-set-up1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89\" src=\"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/blogs\/bookandpaperlabs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/08\/Beater-set-up1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Beater on cart\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" longdesc=\"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/blogs\/bookandpaperlabs?longdesc=89&amp;referrer=87\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1121\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1567-e1449589010979.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1121\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1121\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1567-e1449589010979-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"hydraulic press\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our hydraulic press was made specifically for the lab by our amazing UC carpenters<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<strong>Holly Prochaska (UC) &#8212; Preservation Librarian<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April the Provost Office awarded the lab funds to purchase paper making equipment through the Third Century Faculty Research Materials Grant.\u00a0 Over the next six months the lab intends to establish a workflow for paper making so that we may begin producing our own archival quality papers for conservation treatments.\u00a0 With the grant monies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/thepreservationlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}