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n. The craft of making paper.
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n. the craft of making paper
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Papermaking is the process of making paper, a material which is used universally today for writing and packaging.
In papermaking, a dilute suspension of fibres in water is drained through a screen, so that a mat of randomly interwoven fibres is laid down. Water is removed from this mat of fibres by pressing and drying to make paper. Since the invention of the Fourdrinier machine in the 19th century, most paper has been made from wood pulp because of cost. But other fibre sources such as cotton and textiles are used for high-quality papers. One common measure of a paper's quality is its non-wood-pulp content, e.g., 25% cotton, 50% rag, etc. Previously, paper was made up of rags and hemp as well as other materials.
Usage examples of "papermaking".
Within the year we added a papermaking machine, which was a major undertaking but not a major headache.
AH books were printed on paper that was a third of a yard high and a quarter yard wide, since that was the width that our papermaking machine made.
Franciscan monastery in Cracow, we had a papermaking plant, a printshop, and a book bindery.
The process also generates hydrogen and chlorine, which can be combined immediately to produce hydrochloric acid, or the hydrogen can be burned as fuel and the chlorine can be used for bleach, in papermaking, for killing bacteria in water, or for killing things in general.
The greatest source of power available at the time - water power - was aggressively developed, and employed to do ever more kinds of work: not only grinding grain but fulling cloth, blacksmithing, beer mashing, woodworking, mixing mortar and cement, papermaking, rope making, oil pressing, preparing dyes for cloth, and powering bellows to heat blast furnaces for steel.
I have often watched the process of papermaking on the banks of the Kyichu River.
Clare with her arms plunging into the papermaking vat, pulling up the mold and shaking it so, and so, to meld the fibers.
Darkover include among others, dairy farming, certain types of animal husbandry, papermaking, manufacture of certain drugs, grain milling, weaving, dyeing, preparation of wines and certain distilled liquors, small-scale mining of platinum, gold, silver and some of the exotic metals, but nothing classifiable by TE standards as heavy industry.
DeCandido of the New York Public Library (Research) Preservation Division, for assistance with the descriptions of papermaking.
Most papermaking techniques, Masterharper, are refinements of techniques you already employ, made easier by some basic machinery and of no higher level than your ancestors brought with them.