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Show 6 shape suggested the stone jars of "Ali Baba" in the Arabian Nights. At on side of the room there were three well-formed Gothic recesses, which, wit the folding wooden shutters on the three opposite windows, and the beame i vat-house, was a one storey mud building, extremely dark, and with th usual living requirements-clay pots and cooking utensils, Indian stringm beds, and th customar Mohammeda picturesof saints. The outside wal of the structure was fitted with an open fireplace, used for cooking the ric which is the staple food of the Indian papermakers he time of our visit to Sailkot the beating of papermaking materia was accomplished without hardship, as they-were then using scraps of o paper, the discard from printing establishments. Photograph 38. I criticize the use of this inferior material for the making of handmade paper, bu apparently made no impression upon the mill owner, the sole aim being t produce paper cheaply enough to enable them to compete with the produc of the paper-machine. The use of the paper clippings of course made th asier and more rapid. The clippings were placed in one of th carthenware jarsand a little water was added; then an old man, dressed onl in a loin-cloth, stamped and macerated the material with his fect, x&cadyin himself by holding to an overhead rope. Photograph 39. After sufficien stamping, ;\ccomplish:d within a half hour's time, photograph 40, th beaten stock was dipped from the sunken jar to the close-by cement vat where after a thorough stirring it was formed into sheets of paper, photographs 41-42-43, in practically the same manner as in Kashmir, previousl lescribed. The principal difference between the papermaking technique o Kashmir and Sailkot lies in the construction and design of the vats-th vats of Kashmir being of wood, those of the Punjab, cement, The moulds while not identical, are similar in construction. (See: Part I11) The paper of the Sailkot region was dried in the same fashion as i Nowshera, Kashmir, being brushed, while moist, against a plaster wall Digital image© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rihts reserved |
