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Show L TH MAKER AN i AN METHOD OCCIDENTA DURIN O ASRETEST APPLIANCE ORIENTA TH TH O PAPER DEVELOPMEN CRAF To trace the beginnings of papermaking we must go back almost two thousand years,-to the Chinese who were the inventors of paper. It is not known exactly when the craft was firs practiced by them,-some historians state emphatically that it wa in the year Ap. 105, while other antiq nately for the purpose of this book it will not be necessary to arriv at precise conclusions regarding this point. Papermaking wa without doubt of Chinese origin, the art tras velling west, first t Samarkand about the year 750, thence to Bagdad (793) and Damascus, reaching Morocco about 1100, Within fifty years afier th craft was introduced into Morocc it extended into Europe, its inception being in Xativa, Spain; thence moving to France, wher the first papermaking was done in Hérault in 11893 and on to Germany, being introduced cither at Cologne in 1320 or at Niirnber by Ulman Stromer in 1390. The art was probably practiced in Ital carlier than in Germany, for it is recorded that paper was made i Montefano as early as 1276, and later in Venice. In England pape was fabricated in the John Tate mill in 1494, but not in Hollan until almost a hundred years later; and two hundred years afte the first English mill was established the art of papermaking wa introduced into the New World by William Rittenhouse The methods that were used in the making of paper during th carly centuries of the eraft are naturally vague affer a lapse of almost two thousand years. No records indicate to us the manner i Wwhich the Chinese first made paper; but as with the ancient arts o 10 Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |
