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Show TH PAPE MOULD OF SOUTHER SIA After the two long and two short teak strips have bee pegged and wedged together to form a long and narro framework, the cloth is stretched over the under side o the frame and held by thin reeds, tacked securely. Th undersides of two moulds,showing the cloth held tightly to the wooden frame, may be scen in the foreground of Photographs 8 and 14. Owing to the unusual lengt of the moulds, with their tendency to draw narrower i the middle than at the ends, each mould is provided wit a centre cross-piece which holds the sides parallel. Thi wooden cross-bar is raised above the woven cloth so tha it does not interfere with the forming ofa sheet of paper the 440 stock or pulp flowing under the cross-picce th full length and breadth of the mould. Neither does th cross-stick retard the work of rolling the newly-forme sheet of paper, as shown in Photograph 7; nor with th stripping or pecling of the dry sheet of paper from th woven cloth of the mould,as depicted in Photograph g The twenty-five or thirty papermaking moulds in use a the Tym Niltongkum mill had been constructed on th premises by members of the family. No special worker ever engaged in this particular craft,not even during th days when papermaking by hand was carried on exten sively along the canals and waterways of Southern Siam Within a score of years all that will remain of old Siames papermaking will be the mouldsin Occidental museums e Digitalimage© 2004 Marriott Library, Uni iversity of Utah. Al rights reserved |