What is "rag paper"

Usage examples of "rag paper".

But the rag paper, acid-free, marked by special noncorrosive inks, would last far longer than any wood-pulp paper.

Opening it brought a sharp smell of musty linen-rag paper, and a scent of Fehinna, spices and heat.

Veys trailed a finger over the bleached silk-rag paper, tracing the course of Ille Glaive's northern road.

So far we knew that Miss Harper had burned sheets of twenty-pound rag paper imprinted with characters typed with a carbon ribbon.

He dug inside his jacket somewhere and brought out a rumpled and stained piece of cheap rag paper.

She would copy records, by hand, from computer screens and printouts onto rag paper sheets.

The Order made its own rag paper, once manufactured by breaking up cloth in great pounding animal-driven pestles, but now directly from cotton in a room humming with high-speed electrical equipment.

I have ascertained experimentally that linen fabric is just as vulnerable to acid damage as is rag paper.

He had his notes and the final few sheets of a good ream of smooth rag paper.

Elsewhere in the room there were some free men, Scribes I gathered though they were stripped to the waist, who were inking, using a silk-screen process, large sheets of layered, glued rag paper.

The source is a squat mass of metal and wood crammed into the center of the shed, surrounded by buckets and bales of rag paper in all colors.

But, in ink turned brown, in yellowed rag paper in the ruled record, books of the Eastern Pennsylvania Asylum, which was Meadeville Mental in 1850, there were the records of a patient named John Kingman for every year.