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Show PAPERMAKIN I INDO-CHIN 5 was this same construdion of individual stamper that n doubt suggested to the papermaker o Europe the possi bility of the multiple stampers that were universally use in the Occident until the invention of the «Hollander during the latter part of the seventeenth century The Material used in Sizing the Pape In most Oriental countries a sizing substance isadde to the pulp in the dipping vat before forming the fibrou stock into sheets of paper. Thissizing material is a gelati nous liquid extracted from the roots of various plants o from the wood of certain trees that contain the desire gummy substance. The size plays a definite part in th Oriental process of forming paper that cannot be satisfactorily explained. It performs two significant funétion ne mission is to bind th thatare diametrically oppos fibers together during formation on the moulds,while th other duty of the sizeis to prevent the newly-madesheet of paper from adhering together when they are presse one upon anotherin a pile of several hundred sheets. Al paper formed in the Oriental manneris made withoutinterleaving felts In Japan thesize s extraéted from a number of plants including the root of the hollyhock (A/zhaca rosea); i making Korean paper the workers use a size made fro the Hibiscus manihot,while in China the most importan sizing substance is the p'aau fa (Machilus thunbergii), th same mucilaginous material used by Chinese women as Digital mage© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rights reserved |