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How do I make paper look old?

How to make paper look old without making it look fake?

  • I basically need to make A LOT of paper (a blank book) look old. I've tea stained paper before and I have also used coffee. Is there any way to make it look old (preferably one that doesn't involve wetting the pages) that will make it look authentic. I want it the shade of the paper in the spider wick field guide preferably. Thanks for any help! Also; I heard that leaving the paper in the sun works. Is this true?

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    crumpling it up multiple times then flatting it out works

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leave a pile of paper in a well ventilated place like a garage or something in a box and cover it in soil leave it for a week then come back to it and take the paper out and brush off all the dirt.

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Sun baking will age the edges nicely and dry the cover. Baking will dry and split a whole book. You will need to rest it in a humid (ish) atmosphere betrween baking sessions - the art is in not buring it.

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