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Show 6 PAPERMAKIN better. It was a perfectly good writing paper, lacking nothing bu litde more white to be accepted by everybody as rag paper. noticed too, that the sheets differed in colour. T now selected thre different kinds. The first was dirty-white, the sccond grey, and th third yellowish. Could this difference be caused by the pappu itself? This seemed unlikely to me. T thought rather that th cause must be sought in the process of making. And I was no mistaken. For, to my questions, the papermaker avowed that h worked at three different ti es on the paper, and consequentl one portion lay longer in the lime than the other. Could I not conclude from this that the grey and yellow colours had accidentall developed and that with better care a better quality could b produced 1 honoured myself by submitting three new and good sample o the Bavarian Academy, and without delay, I made preparation for experiments with all of the materials which I thought might b it for papermaking. And since my former experience convince me that my aim would be very slowly and with double expense if at all-reached ifI depended on the papermaker alone, I decided mysclfto make all the experiments, from beginning to end in my own home. Afier Doctor Schiffer dec led to be his own papermaker he employed a local artis i to show him the principles of the craff, als his servants were instructed, and affer procuring several mould he was ready to make his own experiments. The clergyman-papermaker had a small stamping mill constructed which was operate by hand, and in this machine, which he pictures in his book, mos of the beating was accomplished for producing the samples o papers shown in the six volumes. "And I started again to mak satisfaction did T feel when I saw that everything came out bette Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |