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Show PAPERMAKIN I INDO-CHIN 4 and straw, is so universally employed in Oriental papermaking no description of the tree or the fiber is essential Preparing the Bark for Papermakin With pradically all Asiatic trees and shrubs used fo making paper it is only the underlying bark that yield the tough but pliable fibers. The inner bark is the fibrou coating ofthe Dap/meand Broussonetia thatlies thinlyand tightly compressed between the stem and the rough outside bark, or skin, of the trees. After the branches hav been cut and conveyed to the locality where the bark i to be prepared for the papermakers, the initial step in th procedure s to peel strips of the complete bark from th branchesand later free the whiteinner bark from the out side bark; tospeedily and effectually accomplish this tas the branches must first be rendered soft and flexible. I Tonkin this flaccidity is produced by soaking compac bundles of the materialin waterafter which treatment th entire bark, both outer and inner, may be slit along th length of the branches. Photograph 1. The dark outsid bark is next scraped away by using small knives fitted t the palm of the hand. Both men and women perform th scraping whilesitting in circles on thegroundin the open their babies playing in the piles of outer bark waste tha for the moment has been discarded, but will eventuall serve as fuel in the paper mills. The strips of usable whit inner bark, pliant and traétable, composed of practicall pure cellulose, are again thoroughly washed and dried i i Digital mage© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rihts reserved |