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Show One of the most intere s Thave ever prl.nn,ncndinvcmgmn handmade paper and allied crafls was spent in the Technical School o Scoul. This institute is housed in a wooden building of Eumpean architecture, not far from the capital, and is the only academy in the world wher the teaching of forming sheets of paper by hand is part of the curriculum In the seventh century the Koreans carried the art of papermaking t Japan, and Korean methods of working were introduced into that country now, in return, in the twentieth century, the Japanese are teaching th Komam the more efficient process used in Japan. It was for this purpos that the institute at Scoul established a department of handmade pape fzhncatmn the Jap that the Koreans had made but littl progress in the b years, and desiring that th paperma the mountains and valleys of Korea learn the more skillful szzncsr system. This work is under the guidance of Mr. T. Tamamiira president of the institute, and Mr. K. Seno, chief of the school laboratory Dauring my visit to the school in company with Mr. Takahashi, these tw professors were very considerate of my interest, and per for making photographs of the school room, the first pictures cver to b made of the papermaking classes. By a study of the two photographs 6 and 63, it will be seen that the moulds and method of working are purel Japanese, and differ, in mode but not in principle, from the more clumsy antiquated manner of Korea. The students of the school are young Korean ¢ previously worked in the time-honoured fashion of their ow country, but it s the desire of the Japanese masters that these young lad learn the more precise methods of Japan and convey their knowledg the old native papermakers in the hills and mountains o Probabl the finest papers being made at the present time in Korea are fabricate in the school at Seoul, but it will require many years before the Japanes manner of making paper by hand is in use in all parts of the Korea vastness. While economically the Japanese have accomplished a great dea Al rights reserved |