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Show 13. An Indo-China paper press. The long lever give the needed pressure, the amount of which is determine by the number of stones that are placed on the platfor hung from the end of the wooden lever beam. This typ of paper press is commonly employed in China, Japan and Indo-China, butitis notsouniversally used in India Korea, Tibet, Siam, or Burma 14. A Tonkin indoor plaster oven upon the outsid surfaces of which the single sheets of paperare lapped on over another for drying. The sheets are «pasted" to th sides of the oven by using a wide hair brush dipped in mild solution of cay 70 water. Owing to the dampness o the Indo-China climate nearly all of the native paper i dried in this manner. The fuel used for heating the oven is slightly moistened straw and the discarded outer bar of the papermaking material. Paper drying ovens of thi kind have been used in some localities of China for man centuries, but in the warm climate of India the paper i dried upon the outside walls of the houses 15 Preparing the finished paperin Lang-Buoi. Afte drying, the paperis made into bundles for conveyance t near-by customers. All paper made by hand by the IndoChinese is folded, usually in three laps; also, the deckleedgesare removed as these are considered to be technica imperfecions in the forming of the paper. It would be difficult to procure native-made Indo-Chinese paperin flat unfolded sheets with the four deckle-edges intact; ther is no exportation of the Indo-Chinese handmade paper Most of the paperis consumed locally for usen religiou ceremonies and for the manufacture of firecrackers Digtal image© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rights ressrved |
