Rice Paper Production
Home-made paper
| Home-made papers can be found in many places of China's vast countryside. These papers are small and come with a primitive appearance, but they satisfy communities for writing, arts, window covering, cigarettes rolling, menstrual treatment, worshipping ancestors or whatever. With the rising of modern industry and under more and more stringent environment protection law, many of these workshops disappeared in last two decades. |
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Mr. Li is one of few remaining papermakers in the distant mountains of Shixing County, Guangdong. He learned the craft from his father who learned it from his grandfather. Spring is the time to crop bamboos. He cuts the bamboos in pieces in the width of his lime pond. With their scarfskin planed away, the pieces are then laid in the pound for about four months when they are ready for pulping. He works 10 hours a day and makes a thousand sheets of papers on a busy day. “The process of papermaking is not difficult, but experience gives the paper quality,” he said. |
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