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Show PAPERMAKIN THROUGH EIGHTEEN CENTURIE B/ SRETH THE EARLY WRITERS ON PAPERMAKING FROM ULMAN STROMER TO MATTHIAS KOOP IT would be difficult to relate how I first became interested in th subject of handmade paper. In the beginning it was an interes in paper solely as a surface upon which to print, later becam cngrossed in the actual forming of the sheets; living in Americ where none of the work was being done, I had no way of ascertaining at first hand just how paper of this kind was fabricated There were few books available in the librarics, and apparentl the subject was one that had been very much neglected. 1 kne how paper was made in a continuous roll on a machine, but thi new method did not interest me, nor have I since been inquisitiv regarding this mode of producing paper. It scems only to be matter of how wide the machines can be made and how man fect of paper per minute they will expel. So in reality I am not interested in just Paper, it must be cither the material that is moulde in the ancient Oriental or European manner, or the primitiv Paper that s beaten into sheets by hand in the outlying corners o the world. ‘The improved paper machine is cssential to cope wit modern life as it has come to be, but I would be content never t see again one of those long, ponderous, steaming dragon-like machines emitting from its great jaws the streams of pape ar thought necessary to our very existence. Inasmuch as T am that user indirecdly, of several hundred tons of rolled paper a year, aI trus my good friends, the papermakers will not censure me too severel for speaking 50 frankly and unkindly regarding the modern version of the invention of Mr. Nicolas-Louis Robert Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |