The history of genuine paper happened in China. Like the people of Egypt, the Chinese had, nearly 5000 years in the past, developed a pictographic form of writing. The Egyptians also had been using various kinds of objects to write on, most usually pieces of bamboo and woven silk and it is possible that the barkcloth they made for other unconnected purposes derived out of the Paper. Mulberry was ased too.
History points to the fact that in 105 years after the birth of Christ an official named Tsai Lung, invented paper, though it is clear from archaeological discoveries that in fact it was being worked with in South East Asia for more than likely two centuries before him.
During ancient times gone by writing was mainly on bamboo or on strips of silk, which were known as Ji in those days. However, the cost of silk and bamboo being too weighty, these materials were not of great use. At this time Tsai Lun thought of making use of the bark from trees, hemp, rags, and fish nets. In 105AD he delivered a report to the emperor with regard to the production of paper and was endowed with high praise for his thoughts. Consequently, from those distant times paper has been used universally and is called the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
Whether the above historical tag is Marquis Tsai's entitlement or not, will very likely not ever be known! Nevertheless the important consideration is that they discovered that if they ground some compounds derived from plant matter in to a paste, expunge unwanted materials, float the paste in water, sieve it onto fabric sheets giving it time to dry. After the drying process was complete, it caked into a hard, firm sheet that turned out to be extraordinarily light, and providing it did not get wet, proved exceedingly tough.
It's a fact that this simple of papermaking techniques is even now still being used in exactly a similar way in Nepal and Tibet, the first places to take the technolgies from what is now the People's Republic of China. A simple frame has a cloth manufactured from cotton pulled and held over one side, very watery mush is poured into the opposite end and spread around until it is smooth. It is then left suspended that will enable the liquid to drain and the mache to dry into a sheet of parchment which may be removed by peeling.
By and by a clever developer figured that building a frame with ribs and placing a fine removable bamboo mat over this, would let the paper-making process to be accelerated enormously. Rather than utilizing one mould for every paper sheet, consequently severely limiting the amount of sheets that could be made at the same time, a stack of sieved mash was able to be built up layer upon layer, with just a length of cotton thread between them which would facilitate later separation. The stack would then be squeezed slightly, and each sheet of grume moved to a place to dry.