I used cartridge paper placed over the side of a plastic basket to emboss the woven shapes on the side. This came out quite well give a good negative and positive effect on the paper. The raised areas are very tactile and I liked the way this turned out.
I then did the same thing with handmade cotton rag paper and this also turned out well giving a good texture to the paper which already had a slight texture to it.
I used watercolour paper rolling the edge of a paintbrush handle into it. This was not as successful as the previous samples but a slight raise in the paper can be seen.
I rolled cartridge paper over a thick darning needle this has shown a row of quite raised lines.
I did not find this exercise easy as I somewhat scrabbled around to find things to emboss with and found many to be unsuccessful so I became a bit disillusioned with my samples.
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