The history of genuine paper happened in what is now the People's Republic of China. Like the indigenous people of Egypt, the Chinese had, virtually 50 centuries in the past, invented a type of pictographic writing. The Egyptians also had been utilizing many different types of things to write upon, most commonly strips of bamboo and silk woven into a fine fabric and it is possible that the barkcloth they utilized for other reasons from the Paper. Mulberry was used also.
Historical documentation tells us that in 105 years after the birth of Christ a member of the government going by the name of Tsai Lung, developed papyrus, although it seems from archaeological discoveries that it was actually in existence in China for more than likely two hundred years before Tsai Lung.
Back in ancient times gone by scribing was generally done on some derivative of bamboo or sometimes on pieces of silk, which were called Ji in those days. Nonetheless silk was expensive and bamboo being weighty, these materials were inconvenient. Around then Tsai Lun came up with the idea of using bark, rags, fish nets, and hemp. In 105AD he delivered a report to the emperor regarding the process of paper manufacture and got high praise for his abilities. From that time paper has been utilized every place and is known as the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
If indeed this historical reference is correct or not, will probably never be known! Nevertheless the major factor is that the discovery was made that they could pound some substances taken from plants into a grume, expel spume, put the grume in water, filter it onto fabric sheets and give it time to dry out. When fully dried, it compacted into a firm, tenacious sheet that was extraordinarily light, and provided that it did not get damp, turned out to be extremely durable.
This simplest of paper making techniques is even now still being used in exactly a similar way within Nepal and Tibet, the first regions to learn the craft from South East Asia. A basic frame has a cloth manufactured from cotton stretched over one side, very watery paste is poured in to the other side and spread around until it is even. It is then suspended that will let the liquid to drain out of it and the mache to dry into a sheet of parchment which may be taken off.
It eventually came to pass that a developer with great skills came to realize that building a frame with an arrangement of ribbing and putting in place a delicate bamboo mat that is removable over this, would allow the process to be accelerated greatly. Rather than tying up one mold for each parchment sheet, severely restricting the amount of sheets that may be made at the same time, a stack of sieved pulp could be built up layer upon layer, with merely a strip of cotton thread between them to enable separation at a later time. The stack would then be squeezed very gently, and every sheet of mash transferred to a dry board.