Manual Papermaking

Papermaking, regardless of the scale on which it is done, involves making a dilute suspension of fibers in water and allowing this suspension to drain through a screen, so that a mat of randomly interwoven fibers is laid down. Water is then removed from this mat of fibers using a press. The method of manual papermaking changed very little over time, despite advances in technologies. The process of manufacturing handmade paper can be generalized into five steps: 1) Separating the useful fiber from the rest of raw materials. 2) Beating down the fiber into pulp. 3) Adjusting the color, mechanical, chemical, biological, and other properties of the paper by adding special chemical premixes. 4) Screening the resulting solution. 5) Pressing and drying to get the actual paper. The size of the paper is governed by the size of the frame

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