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Show 8 its layer of pulp it s leaned against a wall where it is allowed to drain fo o paper long double rows. Photograph 65. The time required for drying naturall depends upon the weather; on sunny days the sheets may be removed i about half an hour, while under cloudy skies the time nece: = for drying completely may be extended to an hour and a half, or e sheets of paper when g closely to th e itis only by using an awl-shaped tool that on corner can be loosened. The sheets can then be removed without tearing the workers walking through the rows of moulds and stripping the pape from them with considerable dexterity and speed. Photogr mall mill at Fatshan has about two thousand moulds, but onl use; when the weather is favourabl the eight workers, operating four dipping vats, are able to produce nearl two thousand sheets of paper cach da Fatshan is not the only papermaking locality in Kwangtung, Ghina where the "wove"" moulds are used, but the entire process as practise i Fatshan seems to emulate closely the manner I imagine was used by Ts'a Lun during the initial upmmcms in papermaking in the carly part of th second century. The same principleof operation as that performed a formmg paper upon rattan moulds as shown i pho!ogmph: 910 and 11. This type of mould is described in Part II, an upon the ancient "wove' cloth mould, it probably di not hm its origin for many hundreds of years later. From my own experiments with different ~tylu of moulds T am convinced that the present-da » mould of Kwangtung resembles closely the original mould use at the mccplxon of papcrmakmg at Leiyang, and that the method o forming sheets of paper upon it is practically the same as that employe by T'ai Lun and his contemporarics Al rights reserved |