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Show i six an a half fee ooty t tops of the towerin e apcmn and abo sides to the bottom, (hcvd taperin a point beneath the dirt floor of the room of the vat, shgh(l\, omamented, were notched, so tha a wooden pole migh be supported across the vat. This long pole acted as a rest for the moul during the operation of forming paper, and was supplemented by tw shorter s laid across the vat in the opposite direction to the long one er the papermaker had placed the macerated pulp in the vat, an had add\_d more water from the shallow, Axmqux‘cd well, photograph 19 in the mill enclosure, the mass was vigorously stirred by two men, onc a either side of the vat. The exhibition of the acluzl forming of paper upo the mould was in readiness to proceed. The dignified old man now undertook to give the final stirring, calculated to bring the well-beaten fibres t the top and to allow the lumps and heavy particles to sink to the botto of the vat. He next lfted the mould-frame, with its laid grass covering, an placed the two loose deckle sticks at the sides. The fixed deckle sticks, boun parallel at the top and bottom edges of the grass laid covering, and the tw removable side deckle sticks, formeda shallow fence all around the mould making a sieve-like receptacle which would catch up the fibees and allo grass covering which secured it to the wppomng mo\l]drframe. The skille apermak ‘mould, with its thin deposit of pulp, upon the water's surface, and allowe the surplus water to drain through, leaving a moist, tangled sheet of fibre upon the laid-covering. Photograph 20. After the mould had floated a fe seconds, the vatman, by a releasing motion of his hands upon the deckl sticks, freed the sheet, 5o that for a moment it floated on the water of th Digital image© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rihts reserved |