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 Dinesh
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Paper was an invention of the Eastern cultures, where it had been known and used for many centuries. It entered Europe via the Levant and Islamic Spain, where the process of manufacture was mastered in the twelfth century. The raw material, before the introduction of paper made from wood pulp in the nineteenth century, was linen rags. These were collected and then mashed together into a pulp which was mixed with water into substance with the consistency of a thin gruel. A round griddle with a base of wire mesh could then be lowered into the mix, and a film captured in a base. This would be delicately jiggled to create an even covering; as the water drained away it left a thin sheet which could be removed and dried to create paper

. . . The process needed an abundance of running water to power the hammers and smashed the rags. Obviously it also required access to a study supply of suitable waste clothing. These were conditions that existed in or close to many of Europe’s largest centres of population, and soon he process was spreading far beyond Spain. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries paper mills were established in northern Italy, southern Germany and in Frace in Normandy and Champagne. These locations were strategically close to the major urban centres that made most use of parchment. Soon paper became an acceptable substitute, especially for the more mundane purposes of bookkeeping and correspondence. Initially there was some resistance to the use of paper of books. . . . . Page 17/18

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 Rosalyn Hilborne
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Superb picture and information Dinesh.
17 months ago.

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