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Show xx The Appliances and Method of the Early Papermakers HE methods used in malsing paper durin the early centuries of the art are naturally vague after a lapse of over a thousan years. Itis thought the Chinese originate the craft of papermaking as early as 123 B. C. an that the art was introduced into Samarkand an Bagdad in the eighth century, spreading to Europ three centuries later. First into Spain, then Italy thence to France and the Netherlands No records indicate to us the manner in whic the Chinese first made paper; but lile the arts o the weaver and the potter, the hand fabrication o this craft has been changed but little from its inception to the present day. Sheets of paper wer Diital image © 2004 Marriot Libary, University o Utah. Al righs reserved |
