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Show 4 PAPERMAKIN IN INDO-CHIN bamboo, straw, grass, and the barks and woods of plants shrubs, and trees, all of which contain pure cellulose to greaterorlesser degree. For papermakin these material may be used separately or in combination, but each individual substance or mixtures thereof produces pape having distinguishable characteristics. The fundamenta principle of forming sheets of paper is elementary in th extreme: vegetable matter is beaten in water until eac particle of celluloseis freed and separated into individua units or fibers; the next step is to place great masses of th minute fibers in a quantity of water, and when agitate the fibers naturally rise to the water's surface, like film milkweed seeds floating on a brook; it only remains for thin layer of the fiber in felted formation to belifted fro the surface of the water. Thisis accomplished by dippin a porous screen, called a mould, into a vat of water hold ing macerated pulp. The mould is brought up under th floating fibers and they mat in tangled formation upo the flat face of the mould and the surplus water naturall drains through theinterstices. After drying, the thin laye of matted fiber is a sheet of paper The methods used by the papermaker of Indo-Chin are more closely related to those of China than to an other Asiatic country; not only are the Anamese mould founded on the Chinese implement, but the maceratio of the paper stock, the vats, and the actual technique ar founded on the practice almost universally employed i China. To besure, the mouldsand other appliances diffe Digtal mage© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rihts reserved |