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Show 7 for the covering of floors. Native handmade paper is sold i in regular stores dealmg only in this commodity, and it ma any of t le village shops that are scattere lhmughouL the length and e n photograph 57 is shown one of the stone rolls which was used i Ompei until recent years for macerating the material from which pape was made. In the photograph it will be noticed that a young boy is pose in the act of pulling the stone around its circular trough, but human labou was never used in this manner. Formerly oxen or horses furnished th motive power for the grinding of pulp, but the papermakers explained t me that there was not sufficient grass in the district to provide food fo the animals, so they had to import small beaters, of the "Hollander" type from Japan. This modern equipment, housed in a newly-built woode shelter and actuated by a sputtering gasoline engine, surely presents glaring and disturbing anachronism - the most ancient form of primitiv appliances being used side by side with the latest conception of progres and efficiency The vats from which the paper is dipped are simply crude wooden boxes measuring about seven feet square and twenty-cight or thirty inches i depth, the vats resting on hewn logs placed directly on the ground. T vat s filled with water and the pulp added by means of a large woode paddle, shaped somewhat like a shovel, the beaten pulp being mixe thoroughly with the water by a vigorous swishing or lashing with bambo poles until the fibrous mass becomes even in consistency. The size is nex ed to the contents of the vat in the same manner as in Japan, but in th making of the crude paper of Ompei this mucilaginous substance doe play the same subtle technical mission as in Japan where thehxghly xk\u artisans use it in the formation of their really fine papers. As with th Japanese, the roots of the Hibiscus manilot and other gclam\ou: plants ar used for sizing, the plant being known in Korca as akpud. When I was i Al rights reserved |