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  • alexz commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    papyrus

    July 8, 2015

  • vendingmachine commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    Thanks, alexz. I'll change this to an open list so others can add to it as well.

    July 8, 2015

  • alexz commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    I remember eating rice paper.

    July 8, 2015

  • bilby commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    Traditional 'books' in some parts of what is now Indonesia were written on a palm-leaf paper called lontar.

    July 10, 2015

  • bilby commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    Re skin, see here: http://thechirurgeonsapprentice.com/2012/01/31/books-of-human-flesh-the-history-behind-anthropodermic-bibliopegy/

    July 10, 2015

  • bilby commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    What am I doing? That's 2 sensible comments in a row.

    July 10, 2015

  • bilby commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    What about blackboards?

    July 10, 2015

  • alexz commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    This is a cool list, because a quick search brings up a lot of paper alternatives.

    July 10, 2015

  • vendingmachine commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    Thanks, bilby and alexz.

    July 10, 2015

  • vendingmachine commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    I added slate for a blackboard.

    July 10, 2015

  • alexz commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    how practical do these have to be, and how paperlike?

    e-ink , whiteboard, etch-a-sketch (really stretching that one ),aluminum foil, mylar (from drafting)
    vellum hmm.. what's vellum?

    microfiche?

    July 10, 2015

  • alexz commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    using google search autocompleteof 'paper made from',  I get:

    elephant dung , animal waste, eucalyptus. banana, banana peel, banana leaves bagasse , cotton, crushing reeds, corn, coffee , calcium carbonate, coconut , cloth , dried leaves, durian rinds, denim, dryer lint, chicken feathers, grass, garlic, groundwood, glass, gold, cogon grass, hay, hair, hemp,jute ,
    kenaf, kudzu, leaves, limestone, water lily, pineapple leaves, linen
    stone oxford, orange peel, onion skin, poop, plants, peanuts, potatoes,plastic, pulp , reeds, rice straw, seaweed, sugar cane pulp, sheep poo, stone taiwan, straw, seeds, stone, tobacco, tree bark, vegetables, wheat, weed, water lily, water hyacinth

    July 10, 2015

  • vendingmachine commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    Picture yourself writing on a peanut, alexz ... or a durian rind. What seems plausible to you? I already included dung, but I guess elephant dung is a known source of paper alternatives.

    My list was initially created to include conventional materials such as kenaf, cotton, or bamboo, but I suppose other alternatives are okay, too. 

    July 10, 2015

  • alexz commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    I think they mash up the organic stuff, turn it into a pulp, and feed it through rollers to get paper.

    The stuff made from stone is interesting, but not really eco-friendly.

    Durian Rinds: link broken.

    July 10, 2015

  • vendingmachine commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    I was a little surprised about stone as a source of paper, but I found at least a couple of companies that specialize in it. Go figure.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_paper

    I think it makes more sense to call it mineral paper since stone or rock sounds bizarre. Maybe "stone paper" is a marketing thing since it stirs one's imagination.

    July 10, 2015

  • bilby commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    I've seen markets where people write your name on a grain of rice. I reckon they could probably get a sonnet on a peanut, or at least a qms limerick.

    July 10, 2015

  • vendingmachine commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    I just realized that my remark about you "picturing yourself writing on a peanut" sounded snide. That was not my intention, alexz. Thank you for adding to my list, and for making me feel as though I'm not the only one overwordniking on a daily basis.

    trekking? overwordnikking? Is there a rule here?

    July 10, 2015

  • vendingmachine commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    There aren't enough grains of rice in existence for qms's limericks.

    July 10, 2015

  • Prolagus commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    Just added limestone as I own a REPAP notebook.

    Link: http://www.wired.com/2013/02/stone-paper-notebook/

    July 10, 2015

  • alexz commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    I thought you wanted to save the trees by any means possible.

    July 10, 2015

  • vendingmachine commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    Bamboo is a grass. Cotton is a shrubby plant. Kenaf is also a plant. Except for post-consumer waste, aren't all of these tree-free?

    July 10, 2015

  • qms commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    As paper gives promise of pith

    And marble an aura of myth,

    So rice would be nice

    If I'm very precise

    But most apt would be coprolith.

    July 10, 2015

  • ruzuzu commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    This rock paper business worries me--will scissors finally emerge unbeaten in every game of rock, paper, scissors?

    July 10, 2015

  • vendingmachine commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    You know you've made a good list when qms weighs in.

    July 10, 2015

  • bilby commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    I've decided I'm going to start the week by picturing myself writiing on a peanut.

    July 13, 2015

  • qms commented on the list tree-free-paper-alternatives

    Our bilby with his nib and plume,

    His eyes asquint and tongue abloom,

    With exquisite precision

    Incises his vision

    On the husk of a humble legume.

    July 13, 2015