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Show o prescatedto e an inscxbed copy of b sixteen-page octavo boakler my knowledge, on the subjec of modern papermakin the onl rmak in the Hmdus(am ng iage ‘Th Kalp school, like the other Indian mills we had visited, had an ope courtyard, but e pulping jar and dipping-vat were enclosed in small, dar recesses which made photography cxl.rcmcly difficult. At the time of ou sojourn at the papermaking school there wer eight students. The worker who were not studying mould ['\bnc'\tion were busily engaged at the on vat forming sheets of pink blotting paper, a sample of which is appended t this volume. Paper specimen No. 5. The material used was discarded pape cuttings, which they pulped by treading in a clay jar, a simple method w iad previously seen in other parts of India. In the forming of sheets, however, they employed a technique that I had never before seen in any paper‘making centre of the Orient: After dipping the mould twice and catchin upon it the matted fibres, the vatman and his assistant spread a cotto cloth, called by them a "napkin," photograph 49, over the surface of th ‘mould, and pressed the cloth gently so that it adhered to the newly-forme sheet upon the mould. Photograph 50. The sheet was then couched in th usual manner. This placed a "napkin" between each moist sheet and th one succeeding, and after several quires of paper had been formed the pil was covered with a wooden board and the workers stood upon it, forcin some of the surplus water to escape around the edges of the pile. In dryin the paper, each individual sheet, with its cotton cloth on the outside, wa brushed against the wall, where the plaster absorbed the moisture from th sheets. Photographs 51-52. In Kalpi the drying of the paper and its ultimat fir hing, photograph 53, were accomplished in the same manner as we ha seen in Sailkot and Delhi, previously described. In all Indian paper th deckle edges are cut from the sheets, as the native workers look upon th rough edges as imperfections and prefer their paper to have sharp cut edges The Indian papermakers have always cut the deckles from their paper; n Digital image © 2005 MarriottLibrary Universit of Utah, All rihts reserved |