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Show THE SPECIMEN OF PAPE 1. An example of paper made in the Vit/agesdu Papie of Tonkin, Indo-China, a dozen years ago. This sampl isrepresentative of the best Tonkin handmade paperan was formed on the mould piétured in Photograph g, b the woman worker shown in Photograph 10. This specimen is composed of rice straw and pure bark fibers, th straw having been mildly bleached. The mould used i forming this paperis in the Paper Museum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The «laid" bambo mould-cover has about twenty-six lines to the inch, wit the chain-lines spaced approximately eleven-sixteenth of an inch apart. The original size of the sheet of pape from which this example was cut measured 10 by 24 in ches after the removal of the deckle edges 2. A specimen of pure «Daphne paper," without th use of bleaching or of any special treatment of the bark t render the paper clean and white. The fibers are extreme ly long, causing cach sheet to be strong and durable. Un adulterated «Daphne paper" is now rarely made in an of the papermaking centers of Indo-China Digital mage © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rights resarved |