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Show 9. A papermaking mould of Indo-China, complet with mould-frame, bamboo mould-cover, and deckle frame all in place ready for dipping. The «laid" mouldcoveris made of finely-rounded bamboossplints laced together at regular intervals with «chain-lines" compose of horse-hair. The most common sizes of paper made i Tonkin are roby 24 and 12 by 26 inches. This mould i in the Paper Museum of the Massachusetts Institute o Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 10. The woman worker is dipping the mould show in Photograph 9. The Indo-Chinese technique is to di the mould so the macerated bark fiber will flow over th reed thatislaced to the edge of the «laid" bamboo mould cover. The paper moulds used in Tonkin have their ow individual charaéteristics, but in principle they are base on the moulds of China 11. A young native woman "couching" a moist shee of paper after forming on the mould. The mould-cove is flexible and the paper is laid down by a dexterous rolling motion, leaving the newly-formed sheets, one upo another,smoothand unwrinkled. In Oriental papermaking nowoven feltsare placed between each sheet of pape asis the pradtice inall Occidental handmade paper mills Photograph made in the paper village of Lang-Buoi 12. Aftera pile of paper has been "couched," the mas is subjected to pressure over night, a process that force out considerable water. Although this pressappears mos primitiveitis,nevertheless, efficientand totally adequat to the needs of Indo-Chinese papermaking. This bulk applianceisin the paper center of Lang-Buoi Digital image © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rights reserved |