Old paper

1. Make the handwriting look old

Make the handwriting look old?

Methods and appraisals of distressing calligraphy and painting

There are generally two forms of distressing calligraphy and painting: one is to distress paper, silk, pen and ink before painting, the other is to make calligraphy and painting first Then make the whole look old.

1. The aging and identification of paper and silk.

The old method of dyeing with colored water: the old method of dyeing with gardenia and black tea. Add water to the gardenia fruit and boil until the water turns brown. The water turns dark red after boiling black tea (or using old tattered paper, etc.). Mix gardenia fruit water, black tea and old tattered paper water in appropriate amounts according to the color of the paper and silk of the original calligraphy and painting, or add water mixed with ink, cyanine, ocher, garcinia, etc. to dye.

Light fuming method: First, long-term irradiation with strong light, or long-term irradiation with strong ultraviolet light, to accelerate the aging of paper and silk.

The second is that the smoke produced by burning firewood and straw, or leaving the paper in the country stove for a long time, causing the oil and smoke to become old, will make the paper old.

Identification: The surface of the mounted ancient calligraphy and painting will naturally form a kind of patina during the circulation process, which is bright, smooth and antique. The fake paper and silk must be water-stained, dull, without patina, dark in color, and have subtle shades of color. If the paper is smoked and illuminated, it will also have no luster. The color will be uneven and have a smoky smell. Moreover, this kind of distressed paper has a firey look, which is not as natural and simple as the original.

2. The ageing and identification of pens and inks

There is no ageing of pens. The ageing of pens is nothing more than the analysis of calligraphy and painting works through literature materials and the study of ancient (or ancient) imitations. In modern times) calligraphers and painters used brush habits and what kind of pens they used. They were sheep's hair, wolf hair or both. They imitated a so-called old pen in order to achieve better performance in making fake calligraphy and painting and achieve the original pen and ink effect.

In addition to looking for old ink to make the ink look older, you can also use new ink to make it look old. The method is: add a small amount of garcinia cambogia or a little ink into the ground ink, and repeat trials until you are satisfied with the ink color. After the paintings were completed, some were covered with incense ashes.

It is more difficult to identify forgeries that are directly imitated with old ink based on the ink color alone. The most effective method is to slightly scratch the ink area with a fine needle. You will see white marks and new colors, because the surface is old and the inside is new. The calligraphy and painting with new ink and old ink must be fresh, bright and full of fire.

3. Overall distressing and appraisal

Overall distressing is to complete the calligraphy and painting first and then to distress. The method is to dilute the color water and then add alum and bletilla striata water, sweep it over first, and then brush it after it is dry. From light to thick, brush the dye layer by layer. Repeat this several times until it looks as good as before. This type of distressing has no discoloration and a smooth and shiny surface, making it generally difficult to identify. The first way to identify it is to scratch it with the tip of a needle. It will show white marks and a new color. You can also use clear water to dot the blank areas. If it bleeds, the paper is old. If it doesn't bleed at all, it is new. Because after the whole thing is made old, if it is raw paper, it has become mature paper. However, this method is limited to freehand painting. It can also be tested by licking it with the tongue, which can not only tell whether it is raw or cooked, but also distinguish the alum taste.

How to distress A4 paper

Step 1: Make a cup of black tea, you can mix it with water to get the color you want.

Step 2: Prepare a brush.

Step 3: Place the paper on a flat table.

Step 4: Dip the brush into black tea water and brush it on the paper.

Step 5: Let the brushed paper dry naturally.

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Other ways to make paper old:

Smoking method

Prepare the paper and hang it on a In a relatively closed room, use the smoke from burning coconut shells to smoke the new paper. At this time, the paper will show a light brown color.

If you want to make the paper "tired" (that is, to create the aging condition of the paper due to age), you need to lightly brush the paper with sulfuric acid with a very dilute concentration, because sulfuric acid is colorless. It is odorless and the treated paper looks the same as the original paper. After two months, due to the action of sulfuric acid, the surface of the paper showed a carbonization state.

Who knows the simplest way to make old paper?

2. Brush the work several times with boiled water of cork and soap locust. Floating ink can be washed away, the paper will turn yellow with black, and cork can prevent moths.

3. Peel off the paper and place it on a new piece of paper.

4. Use Pu'er tea powder soaked in water and brush the paper several times.

5. Finally, pour the tea powder and water on the paper and leave it overnight to remove debris.

6. Use clean water to wash the work several times. After it dries, peel it off and reattach it.

7. Brushing the work with Bletilla striata water can increase the brightness and make the paper feel both old and new.

8. Mount on the second negative quilt paper and complete.

Soak the new paper with 1% ferric chloride solution or spray it several times. After leaving it for a week, the color of the paper will turn yellow. After a while, the color of the paper will turn yellow and slightly gray. See It will feel like old paper when you put it on; or you can irradiate the new paper with ultraviolet light for 2-5 days (commercially available ultraviolet lamps are enough), so that part of the fiber in the paper is destroyed (this process is called paper aging), making the new paper The paper feels similar to old paper, and is then dyed with garcinia; traditional methods include using tea, ebony water, straw and wheat straw water, and soy sauce to dye new paper into old paper.

Use overnight black tea water (overnight tea will have particles of different sizes, so the effect is more realistic). The soaking time depends on personal needs. Then use a cigarette butt to burn it to create a realistic effect of being bitten by an insect. Pay attention to the yellowing and cracking feeling around the small mouth. If you think it's not exaggerated enough, you can use charcoal water to make the paper look moldy... This is how you imitate antique calligraphy and painting.

Distressing and identification of paper

Distressing method, this method is not for counterfeiting, but only to increase the effect.

1. First place the work on a thicker paper, and when it is semi-dry, use a brown brush to brush hard to make a small amount of ink marks appear on the edges of the words. 2. Brush the work with cork and saponin boiled water several times.

It can wash away floating ink and turn the work into yellow with black. Cork can prevent insects. 3. Peel off the work and place it on a new piece of paper.

4. Use Pu'er tea powder soaked in water to brush the work several times. 5. Finally, pour the tea powder and water on the work and leave it overnight to remove debris.

6. Use clean water to wash the work several times. After it dries, peel it off and reattach it. 7. Brushing the work with Bletilla striata water can increase the brightness and make the work feel both old and new.

8. Mount on the second negative quilt paper and complete. You can also use old newspapers, black tea, bark, chestnut shells, etc. boiled in water to make them old, or you can polish them with sandpaper, but no matter what, you must brush them with bletilla striata water in the end, otherwise, the ink color will not come out.

After the work was brushed with water a few times, it was easy to pick up after drying. Just brush it 1-2 times a day, it's not a lot of trouble.

Only after experimenting can you know how to do it. If you smoke, flick the ash a few times while there is water, and the effect will be better. It is best to entrust the old work first, otherwise the work will be damaged.

Let’s be more specific. I learned these methods from an old mounting master in the Forbidden City.

I once saw Qianlong gold ink in her workshop, which was as new as the paper on the market today. They were mounting memorials, calligraphy and paintings of ancient people every day, and there were dozens of templates filled with them. Some old things are seriously damaged, so use plastic paper to pad them underneath, and then brush and hold them. This will make it much easier. Brothers who don't know how can do this.

She said that the most commonly used method for making them distressed is to use hazelnut shells, which is a secret recipe. Stop it! The ancients’ method of processing paper, let’s first talk about the coating method used by our ancestors during the Second King Period! Coating, as the name suggests, is brushing something on paper.

What is brushed? The ancients were so smart. They knew that rice paper bleeds badly (in fact, it is much more mature than today's rice paper), so they painted something on it. It turned out to be very simple, just paste the seams and holes of the rice paper to prevent the water from flowing out. diffusion. This alone won't work. If you apply too much, it will become lumpy and difficult to write. What to do? It's very simple. Use a smooth stone to press and rub on the paper, and the paper will become smooth. There are only a few problems to be solved.

But nowadays, in order to save trouble, people like the junk stuff from factories, no matter it is good or bad, and they show it off proudly - they all use rice paper when writing calligraphy. Who knows, that junk stuff is the origin of ancestors underground. , even if they presented all the rice paper in the country, they would not dare to write. The coating materials used in that period were very simple, a mixture of flour, talcum powder, and H2O.

When the sage was writing, he smelled the paper he was holding. Use the above method to process thicker hemp paper or Korean paper, and you can be awesome like this! If you don’t believe it, you can try it, it’s definitely not a legend.

The following will gradually introduce the different paper processing methods in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. In particular, we will solemnly introduce the unique skills of two masters (Mi and Dong). If you are interested, please leave a comment. ! Zhou Mi said in "The First Collection of Guixin Miscellaneous Knowledge": Young people in Youjun mostly used purple paper, middle-aged people mostly used linen paper, and Zhang Yongyi was used to make paper, whichever is smoother and easier to write. Based on this, it can be concluded that people at that time mostly used smooth and smooth paper for writing, so that the writing would flow freely.

Today, people mostly write with thick burrs, and they call it to practice writing skills, but the right army avoids it. Is his subordinate really powerless? I really don’t know what kind of writing skills people are practicing today. People in the Tang Dynasty mostly used white linen paper, which was first calendered and then pulped. If it was coated first and then calendered, the effect would be better.

Most of the Tang Mobens left today are processed first and then made in this way. I remember reading a work by a Japanese scholar a few years ago. He said that if you look at the originals with a high-power magnifying glass, you can faintly see whitish things in the cracks of the ink marks. This is probably true.

It is also said that the ancients had the habit of folding paper and writing. Because the paper became hard after processing, short lines were left at the folds. This was later cited by a famous theorist in my country and used for piracy. He talked about the two kings and the creases in the book, but the people in the country thought it was his discovery, and he was self-satisfied, which is really ridiculous.

When people in the Tang Dynasty copied the original works of the two kings, they mostly used hard yellow paper and coated them with wax to make them translucent. There were also copies by people in the Song Dynasty, who mostly used bamboo paper and coated them with wax.

It’s almost the same as today’s wax paper. Xue Tao of the Tang Dynasty often used hibiscus flower juice and cockscomb flower juice to make paper. The color is like peach blossoms, and there are also small scarlet paper. You can try it.

The now popular water-grained paper first appeared in the Tang Dynasty, but there is no real object. The earliest one we can see is Li Jianzhong's famous "Tong Nian Tie". Xie Gong's paper was made by Xie Jingchu of the Song Dynasty. It has a variety of colors, which is a great development compared to the single red of Xue Tao's paper. It is said to be "ten kinds of wild paper".

This should be regarded as the originator of today’s factory colored paper. In fact, the paper we commonly use today was available in ancient times, but we don’t have what the ancients had. Why? Lost! Why was it lost? Technology has evolved! Is it possible that as technology develops, it will become a treason and be punished? That's right! If you have money, you are a mother. Nowadays, there are many people who want mothers rather than ancestors. If I opened a paper factory, I would do the same.

If you want to surpass the ancients, go ahead! Don't talk about the atmosphere, environment, education, and vain things. We will lose a lot just by talking about the materials. Only with fertile land can we have food to eat, not how bold a person is or how productive the land is! In fact, there are still many people in our circle who have this idea, and Dian Shui is an example! When talking about paper, in addition to hard yellow paper, we have to talk about "Chengxintang paper" and "Xuande paper". When it comes to paper processing, Mingren is the best! It's too late today, let's talk tomorrow! It depends on whether you follow or not! Chengxintang is the place where the later owner Li Yu studied and worked because the talented emperor devoted himself to calligraphy, painting and poetry.

One day, on a whim, he ordered all the ministers to lay off their jobs and stay at home. He also found a few skilled paper-making workers to set up a big pot in the main hall and started a papermaking business. In the past, nobles would comment on national affairs. The place became a papermaking workshop, and the registered trademark was Chengxintang brand calligraphy and painting paper. Of course, this is just a legend, but it can be seen from this that the preciousness of this paper is that the emperor got it in exchange for the country and the country! According to historical records, this paper was produced under the supervision of an official bureau set up by the later emperor, and was specially used by the emperor. If he was pleased, he could distribute it to some obedient ministers, but there were no factories at all.

Later, when the Song Dynasty destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, the palace officials and eunuchs stole some and sold them outside. The price should be quite high. When the Southern Tang Dynasty fell in 975, thousands of them were piled up in the corners of the inner palace, and they disappeared later.