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lorax · 08-10-2009, 10:43 AM

I do it all the time, with the parts of the pstem that are not worthwhile for fibre. If you leave it natural, it's sort of a tan-khaki colour, and if you use peroxide as a bleaching agent it comes out to a nice laid cream. I produce large archival-type acid-free sheets with four deckels for my own use as art papers. Other places do it commercially, adding a certain percentage of new banana fibre to a percentage of recycled pulp and rag. When BQ finally goes to print, it will be on a gloss paper of this type that is produced locally.

I posted the method I use in another thread a while back.... Here it is!!

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lorax Banned lorax's Photo Gallery Location: Ecuador, South America Find me on the map! Zone: USDA 13 / Köppen-Geiger BSh Name: Lorax Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 2,532 BananaBucks : 308,701 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Thanks" 742 Times Was Thanked 3,040 Times in 1,188 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 464 Times	Re: Making Pseudostems Into Paper I do it all the time, with the parts of the pstem that are not worthwhile for fibre. If you leave it natural, it's sort of a tan-khaki colour, and if you use peroxide as a bleaching agent it comes out to a nice laid cream. I produce large archival-type acid-free sheets with four deckels for my own use as art papers. Other places do it commercially, adding a certain percentage of new banana fibre to a percentage of recycled pulp and rag. When BQ finally goes to print, it will be on a gloss paper of this type that is produced locally. I posted the method I use in another thread a while back.... Here it is!!