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Show Shikoku, sout smaller in size givento me b Laboratory, an Mugigun, Gifu 3 of Japan proper. Another mould of the same kind, bu may be studied in photograph 17. This implement wa Mr. " Mori, superintendent, Gifu Prefecture Pzpuma in had been used in the Uchda pa Both of these hinged moulds were inauual use when w inspected the mills and were taken from the women workers so that I migh have them for my collection Che other common type of Japanese papermaking mould is shown i photograph 18. This utensil is employed in forming sheets of paper tha measure 34 by 68% inches, the paper being made from the bark of th mulberry tree and used in Japan for windows and partition screen 3ptcimcn 4.1 have seen these large sheets made in both Okayama an Fukui Prefectures, this particular mould having its origin in Okayama. Th supporting frame is made of light-weight wood, and has sixteen quarte inch ribs and a single rib running through the centre that measures on inch. All of the ribs are cut to a point on the upper edge so that there i as little wood surface as possible coming in contact with the "laid" cover ‘The frame weighs eleven pounds, but a mould of this pattern is operate by two women, the process being fully outlined in Part III. The "laid covering for the mould is formed of rounded bamboo strips that have bee forced through a draw-plate lcndcrmg Wc.y ip precise and true. Eac strip of bamboo is seven and a ha 1 length, and nine of thes strips, placed end to end, are required to e tie R length of the mould There are twenty-five of these "laid" lines toevery inch. Where the bamboo are butted together the "chain," or stitched, lines of silk arc only threeeighths of an inch apart, but the regular "chain" lincs are spaced one an three quarter inches. The s, or bamboo cover, with its two triangularlyshaped wooden strips running at the edges parallelwith the laid" bamboos weighs two and one quarter pounds The small type of mould, photograph 19, is in every-day use in Japan Digitalimage© 2004 Marriott Library, Universiy of Utah. All ights reserved |
