Blue Peter type question on PVA glue

[Suz]

Wrinkly

Is there any tips of how to stick bog standard paper onto card with PVA glue and not getting wrinkly paper at the end?

TIA Suzanne

[Rod]

"Suz" wrote in news:42ac8611$0$66339$ [e-mail]:

Yes - don't use PVA?

A bookbinder friend uses flour and water (and alum as preservative) boiled into a paste. Spread onto paper and allow it to soak thoroughly. Then stick it onto the card, carefully 'wiping' it with a cloth to avoid bubbles. As it dries any slight wrinkles simply get stretched out.

There might be a similar technique with PVA but I don't know what it might be.

[Cicero]

==================== The flour should be plain flour, not 'self-raising' flour. This mix (not usually boiled) was the standard wallpaper paste until the synthetic mixes came along in the 1950s.

Cic.

[mike ring]

"Suz" wrote in news:42ac8611$0$66339$ [e-mail]:

For a moment I thought you said "standard bog paper"

mike

[Andy Dingley]

Don't use so much (a _really_ tiny amount works - use a small brush)

Put it onto only one piece, let it dry, then iron the two pieces together - PVA works as a hot-melt glue.

[Dave Baker]

You should be asking your mummy or daddy or older brother or sister for help with complicated things like that. Try it alone and you'll have someone's eye out and then there'll be tears!

-- Dave Baker - Puma Race Engines

[Suz]

Dave Baker, c'mere and get yer arse smacked, right now!

[jenny]

Being a tad dyslexic, I read it that way round the first time too.

My mind was racing as to the exciting uses for bog paper and PVA glue...hehe

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[Tony Bryer]

We do this with crafts for Beaver Scouts save that we use wallpaper paste. The paper stretches a little when wet and shrinks as it dries making it nice and smooth.