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    Paper was invented in ancient China by Cai Lun in the 2nd century AD. Early papers were made from a variety of materials that contained fibers, including wood, plant materials, and cloth. Before the invention of paper, people wrote on materials like papyrus reeds, clay tablets, wood planks, parchment from animal skins, and vellum. Traditional papermaking techniques originated in China and later spread to Korea and Japan, where paper continues to be handmade using fibers from mulberry tree bark through processes like cooking, beating, and rapid layering of the fiber mat.

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    Paper was invented in ancient China by Cai Lun in the 2nd century AD. Early papers were made from a variety of materials that contained fibers, including wood, plant materials, and cloth. Before the invention of paper, people wrote on materials like papyrus reeds, clay tablets, wood planks, parchment from animal skins, and vellum. Traditional papermaking techniques originated in China and later spread to Korea and Japan, where paper continues to be handmade using fibers from mulberry tree bark through processes like cooking, beating, and rapid layering of the fiber mat.

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    Paper was invented in ancient China by Cai Lun in the 2nd century AD. Early papers were made from a variety of materials that contained fibers, including wood, plant materials, and cloth. Before the invention of paper, people wrote on materials like papyrus reeds, clay tablets, wood planks, parchment from animal skins, and vellum. Traditional papermaking techniques originated in China and later spread to Korea and Japan, where paper continues to be handmade using fibers from mulberry tree bark through processes like cooking, beating, and rapid layering of the fiber mat.

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    THE HISTORY OF PAPER

    1-10-2011 Volume 1, Issue 1

    PAPERS BIRTHPLACE
    Over the centuries, paper was made by wood, pulp, rice, water plants, and even old cloths. When you make any form of paper, you need to have fiber which all of the things that were listed above all have fiber. Paper was said to of been created in the Han court eunuch Cai Lun in the early 2nd century A.D. According to watercolorpainting.com: The variety of surfaces used to paint, draw, write and tally on has run the gamut from cave walls, clay tablets (Sumerians 5000-2000 BC), wood planks, papyrus (+-2500 BC), to parchment (1500-250 BC) and vellum, a finer variant of parchment. Papyrus was a woven mat of reeds, pounded together into a hard, thin sheet. Parchment and Vellum are making from specially processed animal hide (calves, goats, and sheep) that are smooth from to a fine finish.

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    How people made paper


    According to Paper Online: Chinese papermaking techniques reached Korea at an early date and were introduced to Japan in the year 610. In these two countries paper is still made by hand on a large scale in the old tradition, i.e. from the fresh bast (inner bark) fibers of the mulberry tree (known as kozo in Japanese). Following the cooking process, the long, uncut fibers are simply prepared by beating, which gives the paper its characteristic look and excellent quality. The latter is due, among other things, to multiple, rapid immersions of the mould which results in a multilayer fiber mat.

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