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Show 3 upon which the paper is actually formed is supported upon the framewor just described, the whole constituting the principal tool of the papermaker The "laid" cover in this particular instance is thirty inches long and cigh and a quarter inches wide and is composed of rounded strips of bamboo the rounded form given by the simple, but ingenious process of drawin the :tnps of bamboo Lhmul,h ametal plate in whxch round holes have bee ¢ "laid"" bamboos are not, however, sufficiently long to run th ful leng(h of the mould, but are butted together to form one continuou line, the separate lengths being from cight to ten inches. In the mould shown in photograph 13 there are thirteen bamboo strips o the inch, but thi number must not be taken as universal, as therc is a great variation in th number of "laid lines" to the inch, as well as in the thickness of the strips ¢ will be seen from the photograph that the laid bamboo strips ar laced together at intervals, the lacing holding the bamboos firm and i exact relation to one another. The material used for lacing, like that fro which the "wove" Kwangtung moulds are made, is composed of the fibr of ch'ue ma, or ramie. The laced lines appear about an inch apart, excep where the rounded strips are butted together, at which pmm the lacing i more closely spaced to keep the loose ends of the bamboo from becomin dislodged. The number of "laid" lines to the inch, as well as mc distance he impression paper, no matter how many centuries old it may be. This is true als of Eumpcan handmade paper, but in place of the laid bamboos and lacin of hair or ramie, the European mould-makers use metal wires. The rigi metal wire moulds of Europe, upon which all Occidental papers have bee e since the twelfth century, are a distinct outgrowth of the Chines bamboo moulds of the second century. Papermaking was over a thousan ‘years in making its transit from Leiyang, China, to Xativa, Spain, but afie the thousand year journey the principle remained unchang In photograph 13, showing the Chinese mould, it will be scen that th Digitalimage@ 2004 Marriot Library, University of tah. Al rights reserved |