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Show 2 reduce the mass to fibre. This maceration is performed in a stone mortar, the bark being pounded with a stout wooden pestle. After the bark is sufficientl beaten it is placed within a cloth (dofi) and washed in a stream, as is th practice in Kashmir and in other parts of India. The bark of the ddplm makes a thin, strong, long-fibred paper (paper specimen No. 27), havin some of the characteristics of the paper made in Japan from the muxbm and gampi barks It is claimed that paper fabricated from the bark of the daphne wil esist the ravages of the obnoxious Asizv.ic pm, the silver-fish (L(flt:m mtthrmua 1), 50 destructive to paper in the Orient. The Nepal paper is so imes coated with yellow arsenic or orpiment (Aunpxemmwm) (Hmd hartal) and polished after the application of rice paste. This yellow pape witha high gloss is much admired for the inscribing of Nepalese calligraphy tis recorded that at the exposition held in London in 1851 there wer displayed extremely large sheets of Nepalese or Bhotanese paper made fro the bark of the daphne. These sheets were said to measure thirty by twelv feet, but no explanation as to the method of fabrication was revealed. I have been unable to secure definite information relative to these hug sheets of paper, and it s to be assumed that they have long since been destroyed. The largest sheets of old Nepal paper in my collection are trimme and measure thirty-one by twenty-two inches, they are of pleasing ivor tone and show great strength. These particular sheets, known as "Kalpe Paper, were made about the year 1865 and they would compare favourabl with almost any Asiatic paper, either old or modern. Such paper is no made at the present time in any part of Nepal or India. Another old daphn sheet in my assemblage of Oriental papers is a thin, untrimmed, yellow01d Nepal and Bhotan papers were of forming paper upon them is also dif l\mbnbly formed. on woven cloth moulds of from the Tndian process. For dmmpu..m mployed in Burma and Siam. The this type of mould and i imits th s A Sifieeat o e Pupematig (5a7) amd Pl s Sa regulatio i moulds of India, and the method ~ (1937) Digital mage© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, Allrights reserved |
