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Show 1 long after they have servedthe purpose for which they wer ongmally fabnrab:d the disreputable condxuon of the material and th length of the fibres cause little concem to the maker of paper Tn present day Indian papermaking by hand the materials, with fe trimmed from the edges of full sheets in the printing and stationery establishments. These cuttings are all colours and grades of paper and are usuall superficially sorted before boiling and beating. Owing to the difficulty o removing ink, the papermakers prefer not to make use of paper that ha been printed upon (2) Waste textiles, ropes, and fishing nets. The greater part of th n cloth and rope comes from the cities of India and is usually in dcplorabl: condition, little short of decayed. The fishing nets, gathere along the rivers and streams, are not discarded by the fishermen unti almost every mesh has been patched over and over and the nets are literally falling to bits Indian Papermaking Materials of Former Year With the exception of the papermaking fibres used in the Himalay mountains, T have disposed of the tvo groups (vaddi and tat) tha form the principal substances used in Indian handmade papermaking o ‘modern times. It will be interesting to enumerate the fibres that were employed before the advent of the paper-machine, for almost immediatel after the introduction of the machine the handmade papers of India bega to lose the quality they had previously possessed. While the following lis does not exhaust the plant fibres of India, it does, nevertheless, cover mos of the materials that have found practical use in Indian handmade paper‘making (3) Cotton (Gossypium indicum) (Hindi: pumba or ru,). This materia Digital mage © 2005 Mar iot Library University of Utah, All rihts ressrved |