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Show 2 (13) Chichra root (Butea frondosa) (Hindi: paras, palas, dhak) has als been admixed with hemp and waste paper in an attempt to find a ra material that would be suitable for making into paper by hand. The roo was first beaten and cut into small picces. Tt was then placed under the footagitated stamper where it was beaten for two days. After this pxq,mma beating, the material was washed and sgjji and dluna were added to t partially-macerated fibre. After two more days under the stamper the mateial was dried for four days in the sun; the dirt and sand were washed awa and the pounding repeated for the third time, but in this instance the pul was in a dry state. The pulp was next soaked in water for three days an again beaten, then washed thoroughly and pounded for three days more The fibre was then moulded into blocks (daklas) and again placed unde the rays of the sun until the moisture was liminated. Again it was pounde in the dry state, and, after being wetted and washed, beaten for the sevent time. The chichra oot pulp at this stage was mixed with old waste pape and hemp and the three macerated together for about twenty-four hours e e e worker caughl up the fibre upon his mould and formed the mixture int B sheets of paper. The paper wa hnally dried against plaster walls, the cus tom mmughum India, It required about four months' time to complete batch of paper, and even after this lengthy period of labour the paper hardl justified the effort, for the sheets were weak and cracked along the folds nly in Indian jails, where the cost of labour was pracically nil, could suc produced at a profit ‘The Chemicals of Indian Papermakin Indian handmade papermaking both the waste paper and the ol textiles, ropes, and nets receive practically the same treatment in the process of disintegration, but naturally not to the same degree of intensity. Th ‘most important chemical used is impure sodium carbonate (sajji); prod \ Digital image© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rihts ressrved |
