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Show 5 PAPERMAKIN IN INDO-CHIN the progress of the boiling by rubbing pieces of the bar in his hands and by biting it between his teeth;a man o long papermaking training can readily deteé the actio of the cooking as he can literally sense the formation o the paper in the bark itself. The Indo-Chinese artisan know no other than the rule of thumb method, but wit generations of practice these ingenious workers are abl to make paper day after day of pradically uniform tone texture, weight, and quality After the bark has undergone the amount of cookin deemed sufficient it s lifted from the cauldrons, bent into compact masscs, and placed in open bamboo basket and suffered to licin a running stream all day and night the flowing water cleansing the bark of thealkali. For th final stage of the washing process the workers wade int the stream and agitate the bark in the baskets in an effor to subjec every particle of the material to the a&ion o the running water. The cleansing completed, the strip of bark are sorted according to their quality,-age, softness, thickness, and cleanliness. For fabricating the fines paperthe young, tender bark is used and for coarser pape the bark of older trees is employed. At the present tim the Indo-Chinese papermakers make use of considerabl bamboo pulp, but for the most part, this material is pur chased from the commercial Viétri pulp mill, mentione in thelas part of this monograph. The primitive method used by the Indo-Chinese papermakers in treating th bark are depicted in Photographs 2, 3,and 4 Digital mage © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rights reserved |