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Show 3 er stock coming in contact with these four sticks causes the "deckleedges" on the paper. The fixed deckle sticks bound to the top and botto edges of the mould-cover, and running parallel with the grasses, are lace in place by means of cotton twine; the ends of the twine are let into hole pierced in the sticks opposite the horse-hair chain-lines. Heavy cotton fibr is also used for lacing the outside end of all the grasses, the two loose deckl sticks are constantly being placed over these edges, and it is essential tha ey be more strongly held than the balance of the cover since these left an right edges of the mould are its most vulnerable parts At the time of forming sheets of paper the grass mould-cover is laid upo the wooden mould-frame, the two loose deckle sticks are then placed alon the two open edges, the whole forming a sieve bound by a shallow fence At the moment the mould, with its thin deposit of pulp, is drawn from th , ] ' is crudely made, but displays considerable scientific unders ndmg, oday the most highly developed European handmade pape moulds, as well as the modern papermaking mabhmc, embody precisel h the same principle \ ‘The Moulds of Sailko The Sailkot type of mould is used over a wider section of India tha any other pattern. The Sailkot moulds, as is only nalural, were closel ‘modelled after those ufKashmir, but there exist minor differences that render the two forms distinct. It would be incorrect to class (l\em together although from a technical standpoml the variation is slight The Sailkot type of mould, photograph 4, along with that of Kashmir consists of the mould-frame and the mould-cover, and each assumes th same duties i i w' \ & Digital mage© 2005 Marriott ibrary University of Utah, Al rights reserved |