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Show LAID AND WOVE By Dawn HonTen [With 6 plates All paper was formed in single >1m= by hand before the inventio of the paper-making machine, For the purpose of maling handmade paper flat molds were used on whnd\ the pulp was deposited This was accomplished either bv pmu»uw the liquid pulp upon th mold or by dipping the mnl the centuries of pape these molds have undergone man improvements and changes \\h:cl\ hm affected the character of th puper mude on them to a marked However, the molds use t r the forming of lr\ndmv] To most paper makers and printer rom t o the former the paper shows laid and chain lines when th est a held o 6o hght, a5 in the latter the paper appears to hav been woven, without much v.hm'\ctor or individuality The earliest paper was formed by the Chinese some g,uno year cloth <er-lmd sy bamboo frame which constitute the original paper-makin mold. It is no rhm first molds were dxppul into :\.L \.\L containing pulp or whethe the hbm\|< hq\ud was poured upo s th B cloth, the \hmt e mnld e arliest form o I making a great many molds were necessary it muu, tob produced, for it would have required at le ach sheet t dry bqulc it could be taken from the c he mold Tt was left for an ancient Pers the ide s moldtrom which the wet sl\ee This was the first real step in the progress of paper making, as thi enabled the paper maker t be made from some smoot m which the wet sheet would free itself. Thes molds were made by placing many pieces of split othe clean.sh data import.tsv out README Reprinted by permission from The Priating Art, September, 1921 58 2004 Warrio Lirary, Unversity o Al ight reserv |