Since I launder all the dish towels I print, I've been collecting 100% cotton dryer lint for years. That, coupled with off-cuts of white bond paper I use for mailing labels makes a perfect combo for hand-made paper. Twice a year, I fill a plastic tub with the lint and shards of paper, run cold water over it, then send the glop through my blender. Once I have what seems like a manageable amount, I dip my form (I think it's called a deckle) in, wave it around a bit, then whack it off the frame to dry. Sheet by sheet, I grow a stack of damp paper which I carefully lay out on flat surfaces in my studio. The sheets take days to dry. I use the sheets for little cards that I send with on-line orders. Are they wavy and irregular? Yes. Of course they are! But trust me, they have a certain charm.
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