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Show 15 PAPERMAKIN that Tsai Lun's substitution of vegetable fibres for animal fibre marked the el begmn g of the industry in C Doctors Wiesner and Karabacek y of Vienna, cotton fibre in it No. 9 The maceration of papermaking material in the time of Ts'ai Lu raw state was never used by the ancients as a papermaking mate‘The papers, dating from A.. 709 to 909 which these gentleme examined, were made by the Arabs from material composed almost entircly of linen. The Arabs learned the craft of papermaking in the year. 7 from Chinese prisoners in Samarkand. I their own country the Chinese at this date used the bark of mulberry trees for their paper, but this material not being available i Samarkand, the Arabs employed linen as a substitute. To th Arabs of Samarkand, therefore, must be given the credit for th fabrication of the firt linen e Cotton, either raw or woven was :Appwcndy never used by the early Oriental papermakers e Arabs probably dmntcgr:n:d the linen rags by placin .hcm in heaps, saturating them with water and allowing a fermentation to take place, and then boiling the mass in wood ashes. Th boiled rags were next placed in cloth bags and suspended in a run Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |
