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Show 3 used by the hundreds of small handmade = mills throughout China Probably the greatestvolumeof paperi producedin the provinc of Fukien but the fincst Chinese paper i provinces th "laid"" mould is employed. This Oriental "laid" mould has been in use i China since shortly after the invention of papermaking, and upon it al modern papermaking, both Oriental and Occidental and both handmad and machine-made, is founded. The principal feature of the "laid" moul s that it can be used over and over without interruption, inasmuch as th wet, newly-made sheets may be taken from the mould immediately afte they have been formed. In the "wove' moulds, of both the ramic and ratta construction, where the pulp is poured on the moulds,itis necessary to allo the shects to dry adhering to the moulds, so that many moulds are required With the "laid" style, however, as before stated, the thin layer of fibrou pulp is deposited on the mould by dipping the mould into the pulp; an as the entire surface of the "laid" mould is smooth and flexible the newly formed sheet may be taken from the mould's surface immediately afte being dipped, leaving the mould free again for immediate use. One "laid mould is, therefore, capable of producing the same amount of paper a several hundred it moulds of the woven fibr The "laid" mould of China shewnin phnlogr\ph: 12 and 13 gives 00d conception of i type, although there are mnumu‘al)lc sizes an variations. This particular mould is dmded by leather straps into thre pasts, for the formin of three separate sheets with one dlppmg of the mould cach sheet measuriny approxmm(l,ly uglu inches squar. Specinen . Th ich t ve and china fir. The two lateral bm are thirty-four inches long and th Cross-strips twelve and a half inches in length, thus making a rectangula rame. The four bars of the main framework are cut from china fi (Cunminghamia lanceolate, Flook. £), picces ar fashioned from arrow bamboo (Arundinaria or Sase sp.). The "laid" cove Alrights reserved |