paper the stock was then pumped to a header tank a chalk loading was added between the header tank and fan pump prior to conventional stock cleaning the speckle stock from a above was added to the furnish from b above at a point just prior to the headbox at an addition level of about 10 to 20 based on dry weight of fibre and pigment in the speckles to dry weight of the remaining fibre and filler in the furnish the resulting speckle stock furnish mixture was then projected on to the papermaking wire from the headbox slice and paper was produced in the normal way it had sharply defined white speckles of generally fibrous appearance but varying dimensions against a continuous grey background this illustrates on a laboratory scale a process similar to that of example 1 but in which the fibre consistency in the speckle forming operation is 3 35 ml of 3 hardwood pulp suspension and 35 ml of 3 softwood pulp suspension were first mixed total dry fibre weight of 2 1 g 0 8 ml of 50 solids content styrene acrylic latex u201c acronal s360d u201d and 1 g of titanium dioxide were added and the mixture was stirred for 5 minutes 12 ml of 0 1 anionic flocculant u201c nalco a626 u201d were added over a period of about 20 to 30 seconds and the mixture was stirred for a further 5 minutes 12 ml of 0 1 cationic flocculant u201c nalco 4634 sc u201d were then added over a period of 20 to 30 seconds clumps of entangled fibre and pigment were seen to start forming.