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A fairly easy and cheap method to age paper for creating an old book

1-2. I use drawingpaper (I believe this is 200 grams paper). You can see the color difference from the new paper with the ones i already coloured.
3. You start with brewing some strong tea, dont be scroogy about the number of teabags, I used 4 teabags.
4. A large enough basin, tub or bucket to soak your paper
5. The tea must be as dark as possible (Resist your temptation for a cup of tea, this tea is your paint now!)
6. Soak the paper in the tea

EDIT: If the tea is still HOT, use gloves or pinchers of a kind! (chopsticks would do the trick) Don't burn your fingers...

7. Dry it on a drying-rack or on a flat surface. You can speed up the proces with help of a hairdryer.
8-9. After drying the paper looks like this and you could use it already, but the aim is for even darker paper.
10. Now we are using coffee to darken the paper even more.
11-12 Let it dry, and be amazed by the fact the paper really looks OLD...
13. Now you can paint, write, and/or print you texts. And make your ancient book.

In a later stage I also wil submit a bookbinding tutorial. Till then...
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Mood: Wow! ~Margo-K Jan 11, 2013
AweSomE!!!!!!
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~Joshua-Mozes Jan 11, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Thank you :D
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Mood: Joy *chaosfive55 Nov 7, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Cool!!!
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~Joshua-Mozes Nov 7, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
:D
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*chaosfive55 Nov 8, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
So THAT'S how one re-prints the Necronomicon...
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~Joshua-Mozes Nov 8, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Yesssss!

But my goal is as equaly ambitious. I intend to recreate "Von Unaussprechlichen Kulte(n)" written by Friedrich Wilhelm von Junz.

First try [link]

I have to find time to contiue this gianormus undertaking :crazy:
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*chaosfive55 Nov 8, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
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~LoopyOnCider Oct 9, 2012
I bet it smells wonderful too!

Thank you so much for this tutorial.
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~Joshua-Mozes Oct 9, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Yes, everytime you pick up the paper/book, you feel the urge to have a cup of coffee :D

In time the smell will go away (more or less)

And thank your kind words :D
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~KeiCaiAyan Oct 2, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
Do you use the same soaking method with the coffee as with the tea?
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