The origins of proper paper happened in China. Similar to the indigenous people of Egypt, the Chinese had, almost 50 centuries ago, developed a kind of writing that used images. They too had been making use of several types of objects to scribe upon, most usually lengths of bamboo and silk woven into a fine fabric and possibly the barkcloth they were using for other purposes from the Paper. Mulberry was also used.
Historical documentation leads us to believe that in 105 years after the birth of Christ an official called Tsai Lung, brought out usable paper, although it is clear from archaeological digs that it was actually being worked with in what is now the People's Republic of China for probably two centuries before him.
During ancient times gone by setting down words or pictograms was generally on some derivative of bamboo or occasionally on pieces of silk, which were called Ji in those days. Nonetheless the cost of silk and bamboo being very heavy, these materials were not of great use. Due to this Tsai Lun came up with the idea of using tree bark, rags, fish nets, and hemp. In 105AD he put an idea to the emperor about the process of making paper and got many accolades for his ability. Since those days paper has been used globally and is called the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
If this accolade is Tsai's entitlement, will likely never be uncovered! However, the most important thing has to be that they discovered that they could grind some compounds taken from plant matter in to a mache, abolish unwanted substances, put the mache in liquid, screen it onto fabric sheets and allow it to dry. After the drying process was complete, it congealed into a firm, resilient sheet that turned out to be astonishingly light, and as long as it was not allowed to get damp, proved really robust.
This simplest of paper making techniques is still in use in precisely the same way in Nepal and Tibet, the initial places to make use of the craft from South East Asia. A basic frame utilizes a cotton cloth stretched over a single side, thin paste is situated into the other side and spread about until it has reached a level. After which it is left that will allow the water to drain out of it and the mush to dry in to a sheet of paper which may be taken off.
By and by a very talented individual came to realize that manufacturing a frame with an arrangement of ribbing and placing a delicate removable bamboo mat over this, would enable the procedure to be quickened fantastically. Instead of using one mould for each sheet of parchment, severely restricting the amount of sheets that could be manufactured at one time, a stack of sieved pulp was able to be built up a layer at a time, with just a strip of cotton thread between them to facilitate later separation. The stack would then be squeezed slightly, and every layer of grume shifted to a board to dry.