Hi all!! How can I make paper SURFACE BECOME a hard ONE instead of soft one??

Question

I mean the surface only NOT the thickness of paper

Answer 1

Take one big teaspoon of lemon juice, mix it with soda, add some sugar, mint and stir it well. This makes a good lemonade. Add lot of ice and drink that. Believe me u will feel better.  

Answer 2

wet it and let it air dry...

Answer 3

Shellac it.

According to Wikipeida:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellac

"Shellac is the commercial resin marketed in the form of amber flakes, made from lac, the secretion of the familiy of lac-producing insects, though most commonly from the cultivated Kerria lacca, found in the forests of Assam and Thailand....

Shellac was used from mid-19th century to produce small moulded goods like picture frames, boxes, toilet articles, jewellery, inkwells and even dental plates. Until the advent of Vinyl in 1938, phonograph records were pressed from shellac compounds. This use was common until the 1950s, and continued into the 1970s in some non-Western countries. Sheets of Braille were coated with shellac to help protect them from wear due to being read by hand. Shellac is used as a binder in Indian ink....

Although advancement in plastics have rendered shellac obsolete as a moulding compound, it remains popular for a number of other uses. In dental technology, it is still occasionally used in the production of custom impression trays and (partial) denture production. It is used by many cyclists as a protective and decorative coating for their handlebar tape. Shellac is used as a hard-drying adhesive for tubular cycle tires, particularly for track racing Orange shellac is also the preferred adhesive for reattaching ink sacs when restoring vintage fountain pens."

Painting it might do it as well until the paint starts to crack.

Gesso is a material painted on by artists to make things like paper mache; which makes hard paper.

According to Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesso

""Gesso" ['dʒɛsːo] is the Italian word for "Board chalk" (akin to the Greek word "gypsum"), and is a powdered form of the mineral calcium carbonate used in art. Gesso was traditionally mixed with animal glue, usually rabbit-skin glue, to use as an absorbent primer coat for panel painting with tempera paints. It is a permanent and brilliant white substrate, as long as it is used on wood or masonite. This mixture is rather brittle and susceptible to cracking, thus making it unsuitable for priming canvas. In Geology, Italian "Gesso" corresponds to the English "Gypsum", as it is a calcium sulphate compound (CaSO4·2H2O)."

Salt and water can make a paste, but it is pretty heavy and would probably rip the page.

According to Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Mache

"Papier-mâché (French for 'chewed-up paper' because of its appearance), sometimes called paper-maché, is a construction material that consists of pieces of paper, sometimes reinforced with textiles, stuck together using a wet paste (e.g., glue, starch, or wallpaper adhesive). The crafted object becomes solid when the paste dries.

Carton-pierre (French for 'stone cardboard') is papier-mâché that has been decorated to resemble wood, stone, or metal, and is used as decoration."

Recipe for paper mache:  http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/paperma...

Puzzle glue has been used to glue a paper and carboard puzzle together and that makes them suitable for framing.  It is really just normal glue with a big brush to paint it on and a clear glossy finish.

Free Puzzle glue:  http://www.puzzleworld.com/puzzles-offer...

How to use Puzzle glue:  http://www.puzzlewarehouse.com/How-To-Gl...

Where you can buy puzzle glue:  http://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Sports-Car...

Ideas to use puzzle glue:  http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displ...

Paper is wooden, cotton, and/or linen fibers so it is not sturdy and can bend easily.  You need to stiffen those fibers.  They are not organized so you can't use seveal sheets (like plywood) to organize them.  The only way to make it hard is to cover it with a glue like material that binds those fibers so they can't bend.  This means even spray on starch or corn starch would work, but not for long; the solutions I offered are permanent.

If you wet and dry paper it is just like wetting and drying your clothing only the paper is not as strong as the clothing is.  It will still be flexiable.

Folding it will add density and strengthen it, but you said you didn't want to change the thickness of the paper.

Answer 4

fold, bend , and cut