The origins of genuine paper started in what is now the People's Republic of China. Like the Egyptians, the Chinese had, virtually five thousand years ago, brought out a type of pictographic writing. The Egyptians too had been using various kinds of things to write upon, most notably lengths of bamboo and woven silk and possibly the barkcloth they were using for other unconnected purposes derived out of the Paper. Mulberry was made use of also.
History leads us to believe that in 105 years after the birth of Christ a government worker going by the name of Tsai Lung, invented usable paper, though it is clear from archaeological finds that it was actually around in South East Asia for more than likely two centuries prior to him.
Way back in ancient times setting down words or pictograms was usually on bamboo or occasionally on strips of silk, which were then called ji. However, the cost of silk and bamboo being weighty, these two materials were not of great use. At this time Tsai Lun came up with the idea of making use of bark from trees, fish nets, hemp, and rags. In 105AD he made a report to the emperor with regard to the process of making paper and got high accolade for his idea. From those days paper has been utilized every place and is known as the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
Whether this historical reference is Tsai's entitlement, will likely not ever be known! Nonetheless what is important is that it was discovered that if they ground particular substances derived from plants in to a mush, oust unwanted materials, float the mush in water, screen it onto cloth sheets and give it time to dry out. When fully dried, it caked into a firm, dense sheet that turned out to be remarkably light, and provided that it was not allowed to come into contact with water, turned out to be astonishingly durable.
It's a fact that this most simple of paper making technologies is still practised in exactly the same way within Nepal and Tibet, the first areas to make use of the techniques from China. A basic frame has a cloth made from cotton stretched over a single side, diluted pulp is emptied into the far end and spread around until it is even. Then it is left suspended that will let the liquid to leave it and the grume to dry into a sheet of paper which may be removed by peeling.
It eventually came to pass that a very talented individual came to realize that constructing a frame with ribs and putting in place a delicate replaceable bamboo mat over it, would enable the paper-making procedure to be quickened to a great degree. Instead of using one mold for each sheet of parchment, therefore severely restricting the amount of sheets that are able to be manufactured at one time, a stack of sieved mache was able to be built up a layer at a time, with just a length of cotton thread between them in order to enable separation at a later time. The stack would then be squeezed very lightly, and every sheet of paste shifted to a dry place.