This is the frame I used, it's actually made from stretchers meant to be covered with canvas for oil (or acrylic) painting. I used "dress net" for the screen. In the picture above you can see where the pulp had become trapped between the screen and the frame - this had to be hoiked out by hand, or rather finger!

Here is the last mess of pulp I am hoping will make a sheet of paper, instead of dipping the frame into the tub of agitated pulp & water I poured the pulp over the frame while it was suspended over the sink. I'm hoping this will make a thicker sheet than the dipping method. But I'm not sanguine about it - since bits of pulp were still stubbour about being eased away from the screen, even with this method. So... more holy paper!

This is a new project I'm attempting - just thought you might be interested in my struggles. FB.

Looks ghastly doesn't it?
I certainly thought so, my first attempt at making paper and a failure I thought. But I wasn't going to waste the time I spent cutting up all the paper for it so I thought, what the heck, use it for practice!

Even when I waited a while the water looked red all right but the pulp still looked like sick. Gak!

I had intended to use red onion skins to colour the pulp above - it coloured it all right but the colour wasn't red. It was a sickly yellow, yuk!

Here I tried adding alum to a small amount of pulp and vinegar to another. Neither changed the colour one bit! Still it wasn't such a bad idea, it might have worked.
Although I added it cold - when I added the red onion skins the pulp was in a saucepan being boiled, I later learned that you don't need to boil the pulp anyway.
Someone suggested adding cut up red table napkin to the pulp, paper ones of course - I think I'll try that with the next lot.

This is what the first two sheets turned out like. I'm afraid they have a few holes - particularly the second sheet. After that I added more pulp, without boiling this time and as no red onion skins were present to add their yellow colour, only the bits still in with the original pulp, the new white pulp lightened the colour a little.

This is just to show you my new paper - trying to fly away. I should have left the sheets to dry completely while still on the hessian. Being over eager I took them off while still damp. This is the result.

This on the other hand is one of the lighter sheets having been left to dry on the hessian after pressing. The background of this whole page is the result of leaving the paper on the hessian to dry, you can see the flecks of the red onion skins - nice isn't it? Not such a failure after all.

This is my father's press. I used this to press the paper sandwiched between squares of hessian. But such pressing can be done with merely two sheets of wood and 4 or 6 clamps - I haven't tried this yet but if I want to make paper in sheets larger than A4, I'll have to try it.

This is the tub I managed after a lot of searching to find at a large hardware store (B&Q for those in the UK) as it was marked and scuffed I got 7 quid off and only paid a tenner, not bad eh?