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Jen
>>164043 I usually hear rice paper glue called nori rice paste. Here's a good supplier of the stuff. http://www.imcclains.com/catalog/ink/nori.html They also sell pure rice starch, which can be cooked with water to make your own glue. The cooked glue is more archival than the pre-mixed glue, which has a preservative added to it to prevent mold. I use it for moku hanga, so I prefer to save it for that. Actually, if you want to find more suppliers, google "moku hanga."
To keep from having a lot of glue get all over the place, I keep a small face cloth ready, so when I need to wipe glue off my hands, it's there.
I find toothpicks to have two uses. They help with spreading glue evenly on tabs, and they can press a glue tab in place if the opening is too small for the use of fingers.
A tool that I've found to be very useful is a dental pick. The thin, durable metal hook can get into hard to reach places like a toothpick. But unlike a toothpick, the hook can get to a lot of places that toothpicks can't because of the angle.
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