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Show 3 PAPERMAKIN IN SIA weresuperior,so the pictures of Pynand Luolin as papermakers are used to illustrate this book.) At the Niltongkum mill a stream had been dammed for use in formin sheets of paper and Pyn waded knee-deep into the dirt water and laid one of the moulds upon its surface, th wooden frame of the implement keeping it floating s that only the underwoven cloth was submerged. (Photo graph 5) She then placed a large ball of the macerate Khoi bark in a porous bucket made of rattan and covere the bark with water from the pond. This mass was the violently kneaded until the fibres separated and becam suspended in the water held in the bucket. When th fluid had acquired the proper consistency, with all of th fibres more or less separated, the fibrous contents of th receptaclewere poured upon one end section ofthe clot of the floating mould. The young girl then took asecon ball of beaten bark from a basket lying at the edge of th stream, and repeated the process, this time pouring th watery fibre upon the remaining section of the mould Two balls of pulp were sufficient to covera mould completely, forming a sheet of paper about 16 by 60 inches Care was taken to have the material well distributed,an owing to the fact that the woven cloth of the mould wa submerged in water this distribution was not difficult After the bark fibre had been deposited upon the wove cloth, the semi-porous bucket was dipped in the strea Digital image 2004 Marriott Library, Universiy of Utah. All ights reserved |