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Excerpt from PaperIn Japan, the actual process of making paper by hand can be roughly divided into four phases; the first is the preparation of the vegetable fibers, the second consists of forming the sheet of paper, the third, removing the newly formed sheet of paper from the mold and placing it in a neat pile, and the fourth, the actual drying of the wet sheet of paper.Balls of pulpy vegetable fibers that have been treated are placed in Wooden tubs or vats, (hune into which water is added.' Usually there is a seventy to thirty per cent water to pulp ratio. This is thoroughly mixed by means of a huge comb-shaped agitator. In the various papermaking districts of Japan, these wooden tubs are as common as sew ing machines are in American farmhouses, and the very thin, elegant papers of J apan, which possess such remarkable tensile strength, are made by peasant women.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.