The story of true paper began in South East Asia. Similar to the Egyptians, the Chinese had, virtually 5000 years in the past, invented a pictographic form of writing. The Egyptians too had been making use of various things to write upon, most notably strips of bamboo and woven silk and it is possible that the barkcloth they were making for other unconnected purposes derived from the Paper. Mulberry was ased too.
History leads us to believe that in 105AD a member of the government by the name of Tsai Lung, created paper, although it appears from archaeological discoveries that actually it was being worked with in China for at least two centuries before Tsai Lung.
Back during times gone by scribing was generally done on some form of bamboo or occasionally on lengths of silk, which were known as Ji in those days. Nonetheless silk being expensive and bamboo being weighty, these materials were not of great use. Due to this Tsai Lun came up with the idea of using the bark from trees, hemp, fish nets, and rags. In 105 years after the birth of Christ he delivered a report to the emperor about the production of paper and was endowed with many accolades for his ideas. From those distant times paper has been utilized globally and is called the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
If indeed the above historical tag is Tsai's entitlement, will very likely never be known! Nevertheless the major consideration has to be that the discovery was made that if they pounded particular substances taken from plant material in to a mash, expel unwanted substances, put the mash in water, sieve it onto textile sheets giving it enough time to dry out. When it dried, it conglomerated into a firm, firm sheet that turned out to be remarkably light, and as long as it was not allowed to get damp, proved extraordinarily robust.
This simplest of paper making technologies is still in use in exactly the same way around Nepal and Tibet, the very first countries to pick up the techniques from what is now the People's Republic of China. A simple frame makes use of a cloth manufactured from cotton made to stretch over a side, thin pulp is poured into the opposite end and spread about until it is even. Then it is left that will let the liquid to drain and the mache to dry into a sheet of parchment which will be able to be stripped off.
It eventually came to pass that a clever developer came to the conclusion that manufacturing a frame with ribbing and putting a delicate bamboo mat that is removable across this, would enable the process to be speeded up to a great degree. Instead of utilizing one mould for every parchment sheet, severely limiting the number of sheets that may be made at one time, a stack of sieved grume could be built up a layer at a time, with merely a strip of cotton thread between them which would facilitate separation at a later time. The stack would then be squeezed very lightly, and each layer of paste moved to a dry board.