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Show ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1921 vegetable filaments side by =me nnd sewing at determined interval with lxouelmr silk, or flax bamboo strips, as well as the sewmg, left impressions in every ahcct. of paper um was made on th mold The marks that were left by nc bambo sticks were »md » and those impressed h th sewingsum bamboo Luk.cthu S mold c ion was the simplest and best method that could hav l)en\ g « firm surface that would retain l s arly paper making the lines jm1 sed in the :lucu did not appear s pleus;ng appearaxnue, but becau: (lwv of A'ulmmg u m making mold The wet pulp was taken FSEosh SV Db o I €501y orming s plece of doth stretched over a board. The firs yin the board, with th g in the sun mh Nl mu.rlcmcd ith a cloth, wa his was accomplished b oo stones-the stonesmn the place of the serew press that was use for pu,:sm" the water from the paper in later centuries of earl paper ma Phese bamios miolds of the T patarsl wers emplu\ ed by th Persians, ,um perlnpa by the Chinese, a numbermbes of the introductio of paper making into Burope tis mtucs(nw to note that a sheet of paper made on these bmnbn molds has never been discovered that had a watermarkin the for of an ub]ect. or design. The ancients probably did not thmk o thi mean of marking their paper; or it may have occurred to them but as the vegetable fiber was so unwilling to twist into forms, th lden carried to any Lormimntion. ()f course, the lnid an ape n lines of the mold always formed a watermark in tl the pape unmtenhmnllv hut the .muen(s did not use any emblem or symbo the vering ersons imagine that the introduction of Wuleuuulk!n dates fvom the commencoment of paper malking, but this is obviousl a mistake The bamboo mold shown as an lll\fillatmn in thls article meas ure 1 b 1 inches and th w1 rite ha mad o sheet of paper on it. The frame or 4 A 5 m,m rigid by leathe thongs at each corner. Th covering, or lai 1'nes, is cempac,ed o split bamboo filaments L b (e e e mol by flmn threads. In plate2, g, is shown a pm i of i ina mold,also the cross section of the mold covering, and a specimen o the pnpcr made on this typeof mold Tt s not possible o determine i e ihe o used, and it is not known when wire was first introduced as a cover 8 - Digita image © 2004 Marriot Library,University of tah. Alrghts reserved |