Wet -

Water competes with the fiber-to-fiber hydrogen bonds, causing them to break and making the paper soft and fragile.

As fibers absorb water and expand unevenly, the paper buckles, creating a wrinkled, uneven surface, a process known as cockling. the paper buckles

Once wet paper dries, it rarely returns to its original flat state because the bonds reform in new, irregular positions. Techniques for Handling Wet Paper creating a wrinkled