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Show 2 dried upon it, and not the mould dipped into the fibrous liquid and the we sheet removed at once. My imaginary type of mould may have been usc only a short time, but sufficiently long to convince the inventor of pape that he had conceived a method of forming thin, matted sheets suitabl a ubstance which would eventually become an economi e previously used for writin T will not venture a surmise as to when the "laid" ty e of mould was firs carliest paper discove Aurel Slun and Dr.Sven Hedi clurl e impressions koo s siemeions i spape not date from the very beginning of the craft. My contention that th "wove" mould was probably the first form has no other basis than that th i a of this type of mould, so simple to use, would naturally have bee the first to enter the mind of the originator. It is my belief that the "laid" styleofmould, dipped into the vat of suspended fibres, was an aficr inventio -perhaps following the "wove" mould by onl a short time, but sufficien to give the "wove" mo knowledg no scmndcentury paper of the "wove" :[yle,showin the impressions of the woven fabric upon which it was fo as eve been discovered in Asia. In Kwangtung Province, China, atS presen time, however, the ""wove" style of mould, upon which the fibre is poure allowed to dry, is in use. There is no record of how many years thi method has been employed, but it is interesting to note that the localit where these "wove" moulds are now used is not above two hundred mile iyang, near Hengchow, Hunan vaince, the scat of the inventio of papermaling by Tai Lun about 1 "wove" mould from K\vanx,tung Brovines so/closely resetble my own imaginary conception of the original Chinese mould such as ma have been used by Ts'ai Lun, or his apprentices, T will begin this sectio with a description of this implement The Kwangtung "wove" mould which forms photograph 8 wa Al rights reserved |