The story of real paper happened in South East Asia. Similar to the indigenous people of Egypt, the Chinese had, almost fifty centuries in the past, developed a style of pictographic writing. They also had been utilizing many different kinds of objects to write upon, most notably pieces of bamboo and processed silk and it is possible that the barkcloth they made for other unconnected purposes from the Paper. Mulberry was made use of too.
Legend points to the fact that in 105AD a government worker by the name of Tsai Lung, brought out papyrus, although it appears from archaeological discoveries that it was actually in existence in China for more than likely two centuries before him.
During ancient times setting down words was usually on some derivative of bamboo or sometimes on strips of silk, which were known as Ji in those days. But the great price of silk and bamboo being weighty, these materials were not convenient. Around then Tsai Lun came up with the idea of making use of the bark from trees, rags, fish nets, and hemp. In 105 years after the birth of Christ he put an idea to the emperor on the process of paper making and received many accolades for his ability. Consequently, from those distant days paper has been utilized globally and is called the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
If this particular claim is Tsai's entitlement or not, will very likely not ever be known! Nonetheless what is important has to be that the discovery was made that if they ground some substances derived from plant matter into a mache, eliminate spume, float the mache in water, sieve it out onto cloth sheets and give it time to dry out. After the drying process was complete, it congealed into a hard, firm sheet that turned out to be extremely light, and providing it was not allowed to get wet, proved remarkably dense.
It's a fact that this most simple of papermaking technologies is still practised in exactly a similar way within Nepal and Tibet, the very first places to learn the technolgies from what is now the People's Republic of China. A basic frame utilises a cotton cloth stretched over one side, very watery mush is put in to the other end and moved around until it is even. Then it is left suspended in order for it to enable the liquid to drain out of it and the grume to dry into a sheet of paper which can be stripped off.
As time went by a developer with great skills came to the conclusion that making a frame with an arrangement of ribbing and placing a delicate bamboo mat that is replaceable across this, would let the procedure to be speeded up enormously. Instead of tying up one mold for each sheet of parchment, consequently severely limiting the number of sheets that are able to be produced at one time, a stack of sieved paste was able to be built up layer upon layer, with only a length of cotton thread between them in order to facilitate separation at a later time. The stack would then be squeezed very slightly, and every sheet of pulp transferred to a dry board.