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Show DESCRIPTIO OF TH PHOTOGRAPH 1. After soaking in water, the branches are stripped o their entire bark and the rough outer bark scraped away leaving the fibrous inner bark for making into paper. I the photograph the stalk of the branch is marked (a), th usable scraped white inner bark (b), and the complet bark, both outerand inner (c). The prepared portion (b is the only part used as a fiber for paper; the rough oute bark and the stalks are consumed as fuel in preparing th material and in drying the paper 2. Theimmersing of the bark is done in stagnant pool andstreams,abundantin Tonkin. Every process of IndoChinese papermakingis picturesque cach individual ste representinga scene unchanged in many centuries; eve the style of the workers' costumes is from a period antedating the introduéion of papermakin into Europe 3. The Indo-Chinese papermakers make use of bot the Daplne involucrata and the Daphne cannabina. Th bark of the Dap/ne has a long tough fiber and as a papermaking material it is almost the equal of the well-know Broussonetia papyrifera. This photographand the preceding one,showing the treatment of bark, were made mor than ten years ago in the ancient village of Yén-Thai 4. The masonry receptacles used in cooking the bar are builtonvarious levels and rise toirregular heights, re fleting their great masses in the still, muddy pools, suggesting great Buddhist temples from centuries past. Thi photograph was made in the interesting old papervillag of Lang-Buoi, near the capital city of Hanoi, Tonkin Digital Image © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rights reserved |
