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Show 4 OLD~PAPERMAKIN papers do not always reveal to us the nature of th material upon which they had been formed At whatever period wire took the place of bam boo, the metal was used in precisely the same wa asthe vegetable stalkshad been used, and the meta wire continued toimpress the laid-and chain-line in the paper, reproducingalmost in counterpart th lines left by the bamboo moulds which had preceded the wire-covered moulds of the Europea papermakers a number of centuries here is great variation in the distance betwee the chain-linesand alsoin the number of laid-line to the inch, in sheets of paper made on either th ancient vegetable stalk or metal wire moulds. Th paper formed upon the bamboo surface had coars laid-lines and the chain-lines were usually widel spaced. With the introduction of metal wire th chain-lines became a little closer together and the paper was more uniform in thickness, due to th wires laying more evenly upon the ribs of th moulds than had been possible with the roug and irregular bamboo In Figure 1band ¢, are shown two forms of earl wire chain-lines and the impressions they left i the paper. This type of sewing was used by earl wire-mould makers, but the style shown in Figur 1d, was adopted almost universally later, whe lighter wires came into use Until the middle of the eighteenth century th . Diital image 2004 Marriot Libary, University o Utah. Al ighs reserved |