What kind of material is papier mache?
Papier mache is a French name and by rights that last letter should wear above its head a sloping line, like a cocky little French hat. Trays and trinkets made of papier mache are often artistic objects. The French, of course, are artistic people so maybe they invented papier mache. Papier is the French word for paper. The•way they say it; it sounds like POP ee ay. Mache is the French word for chewed. And it is pronounced MOSH ay. Andy says it in a more American way. He calls it paper mache and the mache is pronounced in much the same way as in French. Papier mache and paper mache both mean “chewdd paper” but nobody really chews up the mixture to make it. However, the main ingredient is paper scads and scads of paper torn up into raggedy little scraps. Andy’s first paper mache object was made from ordinary newspaper naturally. The mold he used was a flowerpot with sloping sides and much wider at the top. His cat Rama helped him to shred the paper. At last the shaggy pile weighed as muc
