T'sai Lun's thin, yet flexible and strong paper with its fine, smooth surface was known as T'sai Ko-Shi, meaning: "Distinguished T'sai's Paper" and he became revered as the patron saint of papermaking. When dried, this thin layer of intertwined fiber became what today we call paper. Next, a screen was submerged in the vat and lifted up through the water,catching the fibers on its surface. The individual fibres were mixed with water in a large vat. In 105 AD, Han Emperor Ho-Ti's chief eunuch T'sai Lun experimented with a wide variety of materials and refined the process of macerating the fibre of plants until each filament was completely separate. Excavations of tombs of the former Han Dynasty (207BC-9AD) have revealed silk cloth bearing the texts of Lao Tzu - the father of Taoism (born in 604BC). Paper as we know it today comes from another source - China. However, none of these sheets would qualify as true paper today. In the Pacific Islands, a paper was made by beating a fine bark over specially shaped logs to make clothes and ritual objects.
Similar processes were developed in other lands - in Central America during the 2nd Century AD the Mayans fashioned a similar product for bookmaking. Although papyrus sheets were similar to paper in terms of function, being laminated sheets they were technically more like a mat and therefore not the same as the papers of today. It is from papyrus that the word paper comes from.
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Since they were also lightweight and portable they became the writing medium of choice of Egyptians, Greeks and Romans for record keeping, spiritual texts and works of art. The resulting sheets were ideal for writing on. The mat was then pounded into a thin sheet and left in the sun to dry. These strips were then layered in right angles to form a kind of mat. The Egyptians cut thin strips from the plant's stem and softened them in the muddy waters of the Nile. It was there that a marsh grass called Cyperous Papyrus flourished. When we think of the origins of paper, our minds might wander back over 5000 years ago to the Nile river valley in Egypt. We welcome your comments and contributions. We hope that this is an informative, useful and enjoyable document which inspires you, in the same way that we have been, about paper. We have prepared the following history of paper, along with a description of how paper is made, what it is used for and some words that are useful to know when talking about paper. Whether you're printing off advice from or simply writing a love letter, paper is vital to the organisation of modern business and economy, and for entertainment purposes such as magazines and newspapers. Paper has been used for many purposes, not just literature, but for war plans, the creation of the dollar bill, and of course, to give the ability to people at home of producing their own writing in physical form for hundreds of years. Thanks to the wonderful creation of paper many descriptions of our world have been stored so that we may share and learn from them. To trace its development offers us insight into humanity's relentless imagination, creativity and sometimes folly. Paper has a rich, colourful history which has spanned the world's geography and its cultures.
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