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Show standing than he could squatted before the vat. The sitting position wa apt to create inertness I was told-certainly the Indians needed no inducement in that direction. The large wooden vat had been fitted with a remov able agitator for stiring the stock. Photograph 6. Thna wooden device someywhat reseml g a water wheel, was placed i ings on the to edges of the vat and operated by a hand crank. Thc agitator was introduced, during work, i fibres settled to the bottom of the vat T asked the instructor why he had not placed the wooden wheel at th remained during the formation of paper. This position for the agitato apparently had not occurred to him, and the change he said would b ‘made at once At one of the vats used in the instruction of students the young me kind would twist mduy into any shape, or letter, desired an ould be laced with horse-hair to the laid grass mould-covering. Such wir eu.mcm would assume any curves necessary during the couching of th of paper. In Europe the moulds for making handmade paper ar cunsuuc\ed of brass wire and the surface is rigid and always remains flat In Oriental moulds, however, the chfapri, or cover, is made similar in patern to a verandah-chik, and any watermarking device that is applied mus be as flexible as the mould-cover itself. In the couching of Oriental pape thelaid grass, or laid bamboo, mould-cover is taken from the wooden mould Digital image© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rihts reserved |