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Show OLD~PAPERMAKIN 1 boards around the top of the pile, for without thi precaution the centre would have received mor pressure than the edges. The resultsof these apparently simple innovations are reflected in the o papers, and without a knowledge of the differen methods of working it is not possible to determin the age or origin of antique papers After pressing, the weight of the post from th Joss of the water, had been reduced tenfold and th sheets of paper came away from the woolen felt as the great pressure had compressed the fibres s that each sheet had become a homogeneous piec of paper, although not entirely dry. The thir workman, in the process of old papermaling, wa known as the layman and it was his duty to fre each sheet of paper from the interleaving felts an to place the sheets in a pile upon an inclined stool The felts were returned to the coucher to be use inmalking the following post, so these woolen cloth were in constant use. By Jong hours and diligen work it was possible for the vatman and couche to make twenty posts of paper a day. Had but single mould been used, one man acting as bot vatman and coucher, scarcely one-fourth of thi amount would have been the result After the sheets of paper had been placed one o another by the layman, the pile was again presse without anything between the sheets. This pressing, although of light pressure, brought out a littl s Digtl mag © 2004 Harit Library, Uneriy o th. Al ghtsrserve |