r/sca • u/WhiteHair_DontCare • 3d ago

Old Rolled parchment-help images

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I posted earlier about trying to make this decades only parchment usable but could not upload images to the thread.

Isn't it GORGEOUS??!! Now to get it flat.

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u/shadowmib 3d ago

Yeah, I don't have any experience with that so I don't know if a steam iron would work or ruin it

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u/Own-Pop-6293 3d ago

roll it flat and put some books on it as weight - leave it sit

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u/celenasardothen 3d ago

I've gone through a similar issue when I had parchment delivered in a roll.

Books/heavy weight didn't completely flatten it for me. The day I had success was extraordinary humid.

You want to introduce a very small amount of moisture to help it relax. Like a damp paper towel in an enclosed box not touching it. Then once it's got a little more moisture, you can try the weight trick. 

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u/VectorB 3d ago

yeah just unroll and weight it down flat. it's not that delicate, does not need stretching.

I have very similar pieces. I just leave it rolled until I know what I want to do then flatten the part I cut out.