Wheat Paste: Recipe #1
Posted on April 6, 2005
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Here’s my first listing for a wheatpaste recipe courtesy of Solar Cooking.
Wheat paste
Prepare 1 cup (2.4 dl) of very hot water. Make a thin mixture of 3 tablespoons (45 ml) of white flour and cold water (just enough to wet all the flour and make it liquid enough to pour). Pour the cold mixture slowly into the hot water while stirring constantly. Bring to a boil. When it thickens, allow to cool. Smear on like any other glue. For slightly better strength, add 1 tablespoon (15 ml) of sugar after the glue is thickened. After using a portion, reheat the remaining in a covered jar or container to sterilize it for storage or keep refrigerated. If wheat flour is not available, other flours will work.
Rice Paste
Mix one part rice flour and six parts water. Heat while mixing to a smooth consistency.
Other
Acacia tree gum also works.
In 1990, the University of Washington measured the holding power of various adhesives:
Adhesive Peel Test
Rice Paste 7.9 lbs
Wheat Paste 8.1 lbs
White Glue (full strength) 7.5 lbs
White Glue (diluted 1:1 with water) 8.1
Code: BOXGEN
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I hope to have a cookbook full in the near future.
If you have any tips on making a particularly virulent wheatpaste send em my way.
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Here’s the best recipe I’ve found…
and I’ve been a spackling for years.
– 1 parts clear acrylic faux glaze (expensive, but worthy) – 2 parts wallpaper paste (heavyduty, liquid) – some water – some elmers glue
paste is hard as hell to remove.
glaze coats the surface and adds a sheen.
glue makes it durable.
water make it a good consistency.
The most important thing is a good base coat and working out the bubbles off the surface. Pasting over the top is not necessary, but adds a shell of strength.
rubbing with a rag over the top cleans the spackle and works out air. I am a robot. Watch me roar.
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I have had better luck with wood glue rather than Elmers. It’s also cheap and easy to get. It seems to make the paper brittle, so if someone trys to take it off, it tends to break the paper instead of tearing it along a line. Does that make sense to anyone?
I have heard of people using acryllic medium in their paste as well, which may be a cheaper way to get the gloss. The latex medium may work well, which is almost the same as Elmers but glossier, so whatever. I have heard of people adding sugar, condensed milk, beer, corn starch, creamer and their own bodily fluids. It is important to experiment.
I always paste over the top too. No need to use too much paste on that, just whatever is on you brush after the initial paste. When you put the paper on the paste, as it dries it shrinks. If you do both sides, it seems to pull against the wall better. Good chance to flatten or straighen any wrinkles too.
Also, use wheat paste. Real flour and water. Any kinds of wallpaper paste are made to be removed relatively easy with water, soap or wall paper stripper. Wheat paste only knows how to stick. I use a really wallpaper paste from Home Depot form Bondex, but then add wheat paste and wood glue to get it really solid.
Also, half of a small bag of flour can make about 2 quarts of paste. Add the expensive wallpaper stuff to this and then wood glue, and you have enough glue to keep you busy for a bit. How to make wheat paste is much debated, this is my recipe.
Boil a gallon of water.
Add 2 cups of Flour.
Get a hand blender (like for milkshakes) and blend for 10 – 15 minutes. Make sure all the lumps are out, including at the bottom and on the sides.
Taste. It should taste like a good oatmeal. If too watery, add flour, if it tastes too floury, add water, if just right, look out for the bears.
Get a spoon and dip it in. As you pull it out, paste should drip two times, then hang there. Adjust as neccesary.
Let sit until cool.
Paste up.
The tasting and all of that may sound wierd but I have made a lot of paste over the years and you will get a good idea of what good strong paste tastes like. I have posters that are still up on the street despite rain and weather from 2 years ago. Make a good mix and make the life of the scraper boys hell.
related ?
rookie here.
what types of paper is good to use ?
wondering how you print out your design, how you get it so big, and how the ink is waterproof, also im wondering how to make vinyl stickers DIY, i know how to screen print but can anybody give me a good answer to any of these questions?
i make my own vinyl stickers, just with a couple of paint markers by hand, but takes ages, would love to get screen print though. As for the other point, i was wondering the exact same thing, how is the ink waterproof?
the ink only becomes waterproof when you put a top coat on it
I’ve been following a lot of wheat paste recipes, and most of them called for using actual WHEAT flour, which works but has a brown tint and grain to it that looks pretty disgusting and makes the work sloppy. This might be a ridiculous question but i’m just wondering if regular store bought white flour does the exact same job or not. Also what kind of life span for my work am i looking at if i use JUST the wheat paste and don’t add any glue or anything like that? Just curious. Thanks for the help guys!
Actually, I always get premade store bought wallpaper paste. I’m don’t believe in that particular DIY. That said I’m not so concerned with it staying up forever as wallpaper paste doesnt last as long in it’s untreated form.
yea wheat paste isnt that great alone, but if its mixed with stuff like wallpaper paste and sh!t its super hard and crunchy
make some good shit u danm asses
yeah i just draw out my stuff in large shhets of paper and paste them up with basic wheat paste!and i use permanent marker for it!its the easiest and cheapest way and things dont get complicated!simple as!and if the weather is good it will last!
damn no one gives good info. i want to know what kind of paper you use with wheat paste
Normal printer paper works grand with it.
newsprint/newspaper
find a printing company that uses “web presses” and ask if you can buy their “end rolls”. They will range anywhere from 15” wide to 72” wide. Newspapers also sell their end rolls. FYI - when web presses are used, the paper has to go through a ton of rollers, so instead of using the entire roll and have to re-thread the paper through the rollers, they will leave paper on the end of the roll, cut it, and tape on the new roll and feed it through the press…
Regular white flour works fine. A few days ago I went on a bombing run, brought some paste along, just a 4:1 ratio of water to flour with 1/4 a cup of sugar added. Hit a sign, with just some regular printer style paper with my xeroxed poster on it. Stuck fine, added an overcoat and it was perfect. Came back the next morning, Glossy, clean, and nice. As for a easy as hell recipie just check Godisart.com.
this may seem like an odd question but if you are boiling your paste… will you fuck the pot up and get it all gluey?
You do indeed. I believe but could be wrong that the heat does something to the gluten. Everytime I make the glue i have sink of ht water nearby so when I pour the glue into a container i can chuck the pot into the sink and let it soak. Fucking to pot shouldn’t happen unless you not stir and burn a heap of it to the base.
This info has been helpful, everyone should share their knowledge/experience.
What I like about wheat paste is that it is non-toxic, non-polluting, and it doesn’t support any chemical corporations. http://www.alternatives2toxics.org/
I’m in the process of wheat pasting the interior of my van. hella DIY
How does wheat paste hold up in high tempatures, like a car in the sun would?
Also, does anyone have any ideas on what I should paste on my van interor?
—pat
one more question…
will wheat paste rot and/or smell if i use it indoors? in my van?
appriciate the help.
—PAT
thanks for the tips
watch out for a CRIP D.O.G Poster near you
how do u mass produce a picture bigger than a photo copyer.
PAT asking whether wheat paste will rot indoors:
I’ve noticed some really bad mildew growing on outdoor work, sometimes. Seems to happen when it doesn’t get hit by direct sun. So mildew is a possibility.
I’ve read a couple places that adding a little clove oil might prevent it. Haven’t tried it.
Kinkos has a photocopier that can elnarge your work as big as 36” by however long you can make it. Long skinny posters, banners, or tiling sometihing really huge, it works great and isn’t that expensive. Plus, alot of times you can just walk out on them and not pay for the print at all. I got’em up to damn near 20’ long, but still looked tiny on the face of that billboard.
when wheatpasting with basic wheatpaste and wall paper paste, how long does it usually last for (does it have to be used right away) and when putting a coat on top of the paper, will it dry clear?
buy a can of spray paint. pretty good recipe, lasts for a while, if the weathers right. anyone tried this glue? shit works good.
What ink is best to use so that it doesn’t bleed? how well does printer ink work?
i wanna try this, i jsut hearad avbout it and wanna give it a shot, any tips
thiz sounds fun well can i get sum tips on how to make my posters on the computer??
thanks lads,i got alot of much needed information here.
Dr Love
great info, guys. i used to work as a book conservator, and we used wheat paste all the time (it’s great for reconstruction jobs). we wouldn’t be using it on rare books if it were prone to decomposing or moulding, so i wouldn’t worry about rot, etc. all that much.
Hey guys, I been doing wheat pasting for a month or so, kinda layin low. Still a bit nerverse about someone breaking my balls and calling the cops if I attempt to hit very popular places..i.e Downtown for instence, well I been using flower and warm water in a water bottle that I then shake very very long to mix it, it gets the poster up but today I drove by one of the places I hit not even 2 days ago and my poster was down, I dont know if someone peeled it or if my paste just sucks so I think Im going to try and use some glue or something with my mixture to get it rock hard, the only thing I dislike is that my images turns brown if I go over it (nothing some clear coat cant fix)..well anyways I was wondering if anyone knew of really good websites that contain popular and active forums relating to wheat paste and street art in general…thanks.
I’ve used spray on adhesive, it doesnt seem to work as good though. /hasnt got that umf you need.
Hey anyone got ideas for cheap Large prints?
thanks to all you guys for the facts and all
i have been interested in this and i wanted to try it especially where i live.
how much water do you add
lol
Just read an interesting comment by C. Klone back in ‘06. He said all the paste recipes called for real Wheat flour. Maybe not well known, but white flour IS wheat flour as it is made from the wheat grain but has all the bran and germ filtered out. Chuck was probably thinking that because the recipe called for wheat flour that it meant he should use whole grain wheat flour ( which is brown and grainy). The recipes state wheat flour to distinguish between other types of flours (some of which are also white). Happy pasting
OK, First, wallpaper paste works I just add wood glue in it to give it that extra kick in the balls. If you make the wheat paste don’t be lazy, heat up the mix, it sticks better! Sugar makes it a bit more gummy and salt dries out the paste which make said poster harder to take down. I would still put in some wood glue. I use India Ink for my posters when i do them by hand and to make them water proof i just spray them with a lite coat of clear and there you go….Bomb The WORLD
Tips to stay up:
Run a razor blade through the poster in different ways just like you would to keep someone from stealing your car tags. Makes your poster tears off in strips, poor Graffiti task force
_’xxxxxx EVIL RECIPE xxxxxxx
Discliamer: The recipie I’m about to furnish is some prettty twisted shit. I don’t condone it, I’m not telling you do this this have,nor am I I’m really hopin’ever tried it. I’m really hopin’ nobody does it either I don’t really want to even post it but hey, we’re all smart enough to know that this shit is evil. Pretty much if you ever use this recipie you’re going to HELL, simply put….
after you mix it good on the stove (or if you’re using wallpaper paste before you put in the woodglue) set it aside.
what you’ll need now is..
(you’re gonna break ‘em anyway)
ok now this is where you start sweating….. CAREFULLY (capitol letters mean “IMPORTANT” stupid
!) and I mean carefully remove the metal fixture and the guts of the bulb. Bulbs pop like water ballons with enough pressure and it’s not water that flies everywhere, they act like grenades and send glass shrapnel everywhere.
Put the bulbs into bowl and put on your goggles. Cover the bulbs with the rag. Apply just enogh pressure that the bulbs crack and shatter instead of slamming the rck on them, remember POP.. GLASS IN FACE…ok after you pop the bulbs remove the rag and proceed to grind up glass very fine.
after blubs are ground up carefully mix into wheat paste while stirring. From here on out, NEVER EVER NEVER put you hand in that shit AGAIN
When this evil shit is used, whoever tries to take down your poster is leaving behind some blood…... Look at your OWN hands before you go do this…. IT IS WRONG
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if you want big posters download posterazor, just google the name and you should find the link to it. its free, handy, and you can make your images as large as you want.
any paper works fine as long as it gets saturated well. in my experience tracing paper works the best since its thin. be sure to use a lazer jet printer for the best results.
to keep it up as long as possible, a good layer of paste underneath, a thin layer on top, and i always spray a weatherproofing varnish on top. be sure to get the edges and any bubbles out of your poster. a squeegee works fine.