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Show 11 PAPERMAKIN oughly evaporated and the sheet can casily be removed intact. Th moulds used in Shan are about 24 by Go inches in size, so tha every sheet of paper formed on them is of the same dimensions. I the Méng Kung State, where the best paper of Shan is fibricated the workers mix a it ground mica with the paper stock or pulp which gives the surface a rather glossy white appearance, 1.,gm esteemed by the native paper users. The paper of the Southern Shan. States is used for wrapping purposes, for exercise books own as "parabaik," and for mats upon which to slep surface of cach sheet several times with the oily substanc attao," (cnllcd in Burma, te-thee). It is my beli that the methods o ng and finishing paper in use today i the Shan States are clmd» allied to the most ancient Chinese practices, ll\ough in no sense a survival of them "Ther are no early Oriental books dealing with the actual fbri paper, so that it is not possible to determine from thi source ai »rhmg rcbardmg papermaking in the East in ancien times. The earlies technical treatise upon Ilmnc(c papermakin was bably "Kumsukv Chohoki," the work by Kunihigash Tibei, the first paper in his native province, Sekishu The Oriental method: s of forming sheets of paper were all identicali principle, but in the diffcrent countries, and even in variou shown in the Japanese book by K\\n:lxxg1sh| Tibei werepracumll the same as had been i dreds of years, and show clearly that the moulds were dipped inf the liquid pulp, rather than the pulp placed upon the moulds According to the old book by Kunihigashi Tibei the material tha was used for the making of paper was the "makaso" or "takaso, both species of the paper mulberry. The heavy paper that wa Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |