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Show 6 In some of the large mills of Japan the drying is accomplished b artificial heat, bu T am led to belicve that the old method of drying th material upon boards in the open air assures better mpu In artificia irying, there arc rows of stcam-heated, three-sided metal dryers, place horizontally, against which the moist paper brushed. The ,m turn o an axle and the moisture from the paper is cvaporated so rapidly that th paper on one metal surface is always ready for removal as the dryer i turned, paper being constantly brushed on and taken off. While such appliances make for speed, the paper is finer when dried by the old-fashione out-door method-quality is always sacrificed when contrivances for rapi working are introduced into hand craftsmanship. The brushes used i "pasting" the paper to the boards, or to the steam-heated metal surfaces are made chiefly of horse-hair or vegetable photogm h 31 and presented to me by Mr. Shigeo Nakane, was procure Okayama and from all appearances it is made from the fibres of th flm:/;ycnrpllx Leaf. The manipulation of the brushes in spreading the pape untorn and unwrinkled upon the boards requires comiaatle agility an skill and can nnly be accomplished :ucu.:sl'ully after much practice After drying, the paper is graded according to smoothness, gloss thickness, ckanhncs depicted in photographs 45 and 46. The fine thick paper, without defects is knownas i the i thin pape,vithout blemishcs, s call shi, whil ith good texture, but showing minor defects is terme Kats-shi. Any paperfalling below the standard of katd-shiis labelled defectiv uch. In counting paper the Japanese use the following syste a dho represents twenty sheets, ten dho make one soku, ten soku make on shime, while four or six shime make a maru. A marker is placed at every cho r twenty sheets, and a shime is usually considered the unit of a packag of paper The paper is cut in specific sizes by laying a pile upon a platform o Digitalimage 2004 Marriott Library, Universiy of Utah. All ights reserved |