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Show OLD~PAPERMAKIN 2 sheets were then pressed to extract the superfluou gelatine. (One of the earliest methods of sizing consisted in covering the surface of the sheets with thin coating of gypsum. The next improvemen was to render the body of the paper, as well as th The Sizing of Paper n the seventeenth century. From the Dutch dition of "Art de faire Le Papier," by De La Lande surface, impermeable to ink by the use of lichen starch, or rice flour e Chinese used starch as size for paper as early as 768 A.D. and its use continued until the fourteenth century when anima it e The sizing completed, the paper was again drie and talen to a room called the "saul." In Englan Di tal imag © 2004 Marriot Libary, University o Utah. Al righs reserved |