Grass paper
Grass paper
Recipe by Gabriella Timanti. This can result in a flat sheet of paper or molded in a 3D shape, as depicted below. 
Tools:
- Hot plate
- Cooking pot
- Spoon
- Flat surface
- Blender
- Rolling pin
- Drainer / strainer
- Large rectangular tub
- Mould and Deckle
- Cloths
- Some type of weight (heavy books do well)
Ingredients:
- Water 10 kg / L
- Grass 1 kg
- Soda ash 10 gr (washing soda, sodium carbonate Na2CO3)
Method:
- Boil the grass (freshly cut or not) in water with soda ash for 1-2 hours. Stir occasionally.
- Drain grass.
- Beat the grass with a rolling pin/mallet hammer or similar until slightly pulpy.
- Fill a large tub with water until about half full.
- In your blender, put a bit of water and grass until it becomes a pulp. Empty into the tub after each go.
- If you want, add petals or any other material you with to show on top of the grass paper.
- Swish your hand through the water to make sure the fibres are evenly spread through the water.
- Using the mould and deckle, whilst holding firmly, scoop up some pulp and hold horizontally until the water has drained through back into the tub.
- Flip onto a cloth and peel the deckle off. Then place another cloth on top.
- Repeat steps until you feel you cannot make anymore sheets.
- Lay a heavy weight on top of the sheets for 20 minutes.
- Then, remove the weight and place the paper sheets spaced out on a flat surface (or a mould if you want to achieve shape), so they can dry out.