Making a Herbarium?

[Virgowoo]

Can anyone give me recommendations please for an appropriate type of folder/binder for mounting a herbarium collection.

Will be including shrubs/herbaceous plants so I'm thinking something like a really big photo album, unless someone has any better suggestions?

bumping for the weekend crowd. :)
Anyone?

I actually went on a 'making your own herbarium' course last year, and I've toured a few herbaria through work.

Professional herbarium sheets seem to be a specific size and grade of paper:

www.preservationequipment.com/Store/Products/Conservation-Materials/Paper-$4-Board/Herbarium-Mounting-Paper

If your specimen is too large for the paper, you just rearrange it, breaking it if necessary. You can see this on herbariaunited.org

You either stick specimens down with special sticky labels, or (cheaper) by sowing them down onto the paper.

Then they live in special folders that are the right size for the herbarium sheets.

The folders then go into cupboards or drawers that are again, the special size.

Professional ones are not in fixed binders because you might need to re-arrange them if the understanding of the taxus / genera change.

For travelling, you have yummy boxes:
www.preservationequipment.com/Store/Products/Archival-Storage/Natural-History-Collection/Drop-Front-Herbarium-Boxes