Here is a simple technique for making professional quality, archival bookcloth from almost any fabric. Backing your fabric using this technique will help stabilize it and will keep PVA glue from leaking through the weave, ruining the material, once you go to use it to cover your book projects. BTW, the wheat flour that I mention in the video is just plain old all-purpose white flour that you can buy at any grocery store!
Here is a great source for the rice paper that I mention in the video:
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You can also buy powdered wheat starch to make your paste. This has the gluten removed which makes it a bit more resistant to insects. (This still needs to be cooked.)
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Or buy starch paste that is already prepared! Nori paste has the qualities you want without the fuss of making your own paste (although it's not really much fuss :))
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These tempered glass shelves from amazon are a bit more expensive than the ones I bought from Ikea, but they are wide enough (14") to allow you to make some useful bookcloth without being too cumbersome. Having more than a couple shelves is useful so you can make lots of bookcloth at once.
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And a nice inexpensive brayer:
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