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Show the opening in the bamboo framework. The warp and woof strands of thi woven material are about the thickne of common cotton string and ar twisted (o give strength.The woven ramie sercen is fastened to the fou bamboo bars in the following manner: Strips of slender bamboo equal i length to the edges of the screen are run at short intervals through th meshes of the cloth, forming a boundary edging which in turn is lashe to the heavy bambco frame by the use of rattan wound spirally aroun each sectio nethod of lacing is so well conceived that the tension o the woven clm.his (Imnbutcd evenly over the entire surface. In Kwangtun the "wove" moulds are subjected to a treatment of shue leung, a dyc whic act pres rvative. Tn specimen 51 is shown a shect of paper that wa made on the "wove" type of mould; an cxamination of this paper wil revel the indentacions of the woven clo In th ovince there is in use (vp of papermaking moul probably 1n»e||(:d wlthm the past hundred years, but founded upon th ‘wove" mould of Kwangtung. This mould, five specimens of which ar picturedi photograph g is of the same general principleas the Kvangtun implement, bm substitutes for the woven ramie cloth a screen of osier o ra ips of rattan are abou ths of an inch in width, wit cross strips ever two and a half mchcs, forming a very coarse warp an woof surface which allows the drainage of water in much the same manne as the woven ramie. The pulp is also flowed over these moulds, as in th Kv.angtung type, and the b dried upon the moulds. Photographs 1 and 11. In the rattan moulds it will be scen that there are raised narr strip i e cdgcs Eeaih Fainefic it acboundai to keep the pulp from flowing over the sides. These strips answer the same purpose as the "deckles" on European hand-moulds. The sheets made o the rattan moulds of Chekiang measure 45% by 50% inches, the paper bein made from bamboo fibre We now come to the common type of "laid" mould, almost universall Al rights reserved |