Paper & paper making, ancient and modern / by Richard Herring: With introduction, by the Rev. George Croly, L.L.D.

  • Herring, Richard, 1829-
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Paper & paper making, ancient and modern / by Richard Herring: With introduction, by the Rev. George Croly, L.L.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    While all this is taking place, the moulder has made a second sheet, and pressed it against the side of the other stove, where it undergoes the operation of sizing and drying, precisely as in the former case. The very delicate material, which is brought from China in pieces only a few inches square, and commonly, but erroneously, termed rice pa]jer, is in reality but a membrane of the bread¬ fruit tree, obtained by cutting the stem spirally round the axis, and afterwards flattening it by pressure. That it is not an artificial production may very readily be perceived by contrasting one of the more translucent specimens with a piece of the finest manufactured paper, by the aid of the microscope. The precise period at which the manufacture of paper was first introduced into Europe appears to be rather a matter of uncertainty. Paper- mills, moved by water powder, were in operation in Tuscany at the commencement of the four¬ teenth century; and at Nuremberg, in Germany, one w^as established in 1390, by Ulnian Stromer, w^ho wrote the first w^ork ever published on the art of paper making. He seems to have em¬ ployed a great number of persons, all of whom were obliged to take an oath that they would not teach any one the art of paper making, or make it D
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