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Show TH OL PAPERMAKER 23 measure 60 by 24 inches and are of the wove type, being covere with woven cloth. This large size of paper is produced cast o ‘Taunggyi at Mong Kung, and the paper is termed "kalats." Thes large sheets, like the Japanese "hanshi," are cut to suit the variou purposes of the native population. The Shan paper is made fro the paper mulberry (Bmuxsoncm P1p)r!fcm ), called locally 1e" or "hsale" In Kashmir and Jammu the shets of paper produced measure about 34 h‘, 3 mchc\ a complete surface of 115 square inches. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centurie there was very fine paper made in Kashmir from bamboo pulp. A that time the paper was fabricated in Kagazpura (literally "th paper village") near Daulata d (Deogiri in the Deccan. Thi paper was called "barsiha." Thc paper of Kashmir is now mad at }\lmghzngnhx near smngu, In Bengal the paper usually measures about 22% by 21 inches in the uncut sheets, while i Tonkin, Frcnch Indo-China, e papermaking has been carrie on undisturbed for hundreds of years, the moulds are smaller averaging about 26Y by 11%} inches. The sizes of the Orienta papers have been cited for comparison with the old Europea sheets; the Oriental papers have not changed in size through th centuries to the extent of the European handmade papers Some idea of the cost of European paper in the fifteenth centur may be gleancd from the prices that were paid by the directors o the Ripoli Press at Florence, between 1474 and 1483. An origina costbook of this establishment is prescrved in the Bibliotec its orign. This book shows that the nine ze or qualities of paper would have varied in price from about tw dollars a ream for the lesser size or quality to about six dollars is recorded showing the price of paper is dated 1352 and reads:"T Cosyn, for one quartern of royal paper, to make painters patterns, 10d." According to this, a quire of royal paper in 135 Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |