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Show PAPERMAKIN IN SIA 2 south China, and in the Shan States of Burma, are of th awove" type,and the paper is dried directly upon th moulds in much the same manner as I surmise was in us in Leiyang, China, when the making of paper was firs conceived by the eunuch Ts'ai Lun at the beginning o the second century A. D. The Siamese moulds differ i dimensions, but they are always constructed so that th length is about three times the breadth, the form having been influenced by the nature of Siamese books for whic the paper was made. The old, as well as the present-day books of Siam arelong and narrow in shape and are mad in accordion folds, the manuscript being read by turnin theleaves or folds away from the reader. As shown in th illustrations the papermaking mould of Siam is ofsimpl construction, being a woode tacked to one side forming which retains the fibres of th to drain through the meshes o frame with a coarse clot sort of long narrow siev bark, but suffers the wate the fabric,in precisely th same manner as with all other papermaking moulds i use throughout the world The principle of forming sheets of paper upon a Sia mese mould is the same as in all other countries, but th technique differs. I shall, therefore, describe it in detail (While the shrivelled old lady went through the entir process of making paper for my benefit,I found that th photographs of the two daughters,made onasecond visit Al rights reserved |
