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Topic: Paper Mache Paste

Posted By: eagle
Subject: Paper Mache Paste
Date Posted: 5/12/04 at 1:30am

Wallpaper paste has anti fungal agent so it prevents moulding.

Wheat paste is also a good adhesive but does not have antifungal agent. So if you are in a humid climate this would not work as well. Unless you don't need to keep the paper mache product.

I would like to ask though: Is it possible to make wheat paste anti fungal by mixing it with wall paper paste?

Some websites suggest adding salt but does that work?

I am in a humid climate and on a tight budget so it would be helpful if anyone could let me know.

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Posted By: eagle
Date Posted: 5/12/04 at 9:54pm

I found out that I can use white glue with hot/warm water instead. It is cheaper than wallpaper paste and avoids the moulding problem.

Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 5/12/04 at 10:20pm

PVC wood glue works instead of ?size? & is less messing about! Even mixing some in poster or plastic paint, will help to bond, strengthen &/ or seal the surface.
Salt does work for wheat or flour glue, if you have not got any PVC or size glue on hand.

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 5/13/04 at 9:58am

I read somewhere that back in the old times, before everything came prepackaged, premixed, and preconsumed, they used to mix alum in the flower paste as an antifungal agent.

Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 5/13/04 at 8:06pm

Your right Nick. Alum has been used for centauries in hide Tanning & dyeing cloth, because of it?s antifungal & otjer Properties. The ancient Egyptians & Turks used this in many processes, rather Than ordinary salt. In fact it was highly valued by the 'Pohms' in their cloth industry in Yorkshire, for fixing & setting when dyeing cloth, before it was hung on tenterhooks outside to dry. {I was going to say ?in the sun? but in Britain this would have to be an oxymoron!} [Because it was so highly prized in the cloth industry, I believe the Turks used their vast Aluminium Phosphate deposits & refined it with urine. So they could flog more of it in the market place - So I?m not sure if this process would have been anti bacterial as well?].