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Show sunk level with the ground; the mass is u'oddcu with bare feet until i becomes well macerated. 'l‘hc discarded scrapsof bar paper, being of stronger nature, are subjected to a more severe treatment than is necessar with the comparatively soft bamboo fibre. After the foot beating, the pu is placed in a washing net, or bag, and cleansed in a ;m , as shown i photograph 64, taken in another part of China. The washed pulp is nex in a large semi-cylindrical V partly filled with water, th mixture being about twice as much bamboo pulp as that made from th bark paper scraps. A small amount o (hereafter described) is added and the mixture agitated by means of a hoe-shaped wooden tool which i plunged vertically time and time again into the fibre laden liquid. Thi treatment alone, however, is not sufficiently vigorous to render the stoc suitable for papermaking, but it tends to mix the two kinds of pulp together o men, one at either side of the receptacle, beat the mass with bambo canes, ach cutting the liquid in an opposite direction, using backhan strokes. At intervals during the beating the fibrous material is brought to th surface by plunging the hoc-shaped implcmcm into the mass. After the stoc is of uniform consistency with all lumps reduced to hbm the material i ready to be placed in the vats from whieh the sheets of p i The. dlppmg vats of Fatshan are different from those mall e Orunla mills that I have visited, as th of earthenware, cach vessel bein about twenty-four inches i diameter: andcighteeninches in height Thevats with their heavy rims, are held on supports, so that the tops are about thre feet abcve the ground level. The macerated bamboo and bark pulp is dippe he large wooden receptacle into the carthenware vat which has bee parnally filled with water, and a great deal of the size is then added to tha alreadyin the pulp. (This size, extracted from the paaufa (mem thunbergis) is described in the section of this book dealing with Papermaking Materials. he pulp and size, after a thorough mixing with the water in th carthenware vat, is ready for making into sheets of paper. Preparatory t Digitalimage 2004 Marriott Library, Universiy of Utah. All ights reserved |