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Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft / Dard Hunter
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REF.PA.1622
xxiv, 611, xxxvii p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
1943
Papermaking
This title includes an arrangement of papermaking topics:
- Before paper: the writing substances of the ancients
- Ts'ai Lun and the invention of paper
- Empress Shotoku and her million printed prayers: the first text printing upon paper to be executed in the world
- The hand-mould: the papermakers' most essential tool, upon which rest the two thousand years of papermaking history
- The maceration of materials for papermaking: from the primitive mortar and pestle of ancient China to the improved Hollander of Europe
- Early papermaking processes and methods
- Latter-day watermarks
- Papermaking materials
- The paper-machine and its inventor, Nicholas-Louis Robert
- Printing revolutions
- The watermarking of machine-made papers
- Present-day papermaking by hand in Europe
- Handmade papers vs. machine-made papers
- Chronology of papermaking, paper, and the use of paper
- Before paper: the writing substances of the ancients
- Ts'ai Lun and the invention of paper
- Empress Shotoku and her million printed prayers: the first text printing upon paper to be executed in the world
- The hand-mould: the papermakers' most essential tool, upon which rest the two thousand years of papermaking history
- The maceration of materials for papermaking: from the primitive mortar and pestle of ancient China to the improved Hollander of Europe
- Early papermaking processes and methods
- Latter-day watermarks
- Papermaking materials
- The paper-machine and its inventor, Nicholas-Louis Robert
- Printing revolutions
- The watermarking of machine-made papers
- Present-day papermaking by hand in Europe
- Handmade papers vs. machine-made papers
- Chronology of papermaking, paper, and the use of paper
