A question about dye-ing objects

[SekoETC]

Imagine if you could use parchment for labels. Sounds icky. Papyrus would be great, though. It could deteriorate faster to make people still favor rice paper.

[miirkaelisaar]

I dunno, I always thought rice paper was very flimsy, papyrus is tough and made of reed fibers pressed together overlapping, it's pretty reinforced. Fibers are very strong, rice paper is more of a pulp paper like wood paper. Hemp paper would also be fibrous and stronger. I have a fedora made of woven hemp paper, that thing is tough =P I've even worn it in the rain, no joke. Rice paper makes me think of rice cigarette papers you can almost see through, or the paper they wrap candy in over in Asia that you just put in your mouth because the paper just dissolves, it's always seemed delicate, unless this is a different rice paper I've never seen before, at first I was skeptical about the fighting kite but some kites are made out of pretty delicate material so that made sense. But I just couldn't take papyrus not lasting as long as rice paper seriously, I would guess of all the kinds of paper I can think of, rice paper is the flimsiest, but I'm not like a stationary expert or anything.. there might be some reinforced rice paper I don't know about. Also you could make paper with cotton fibres like they do with money sometimes =P that would probably be strong, but not as strong as hemp, hemp has something like.. seven times the fibre content cotton does.

[kicking jay]

Well, rice paper is -often- that way, because the nature of rice (it's sticky) allows it to hold together although it's very thin. That's not to say all rice paper is that way, though. Some of the thickest, strongest papers I've ever seen were rice paper. They were still very flexible, though. I'm kind of digressing here. My point is, rice paper can be made thick and textured as well as thin and smooth.