The story of true paper happened in China. Similar to the people of Egypt, the Chinese had, nearly 50 centuries in the past, invented a pictographic form of writing. They too had been utilizing various kinds of objects to write upon, most usually pieces of bamboo and processed silk and it is possible that the barkcloth they were making for other unconnected purposes derived from the Paper. Mulberry was ased too.
Legend points to the fact that in 105AD a member of the government named Tsai Lung, created paper, though it appears from archaeological discoveries that actually it was in existence in what is now the People's Republic of China for more than likely two hundred years before him.
Back during times gone by writing was usually done on some derivative of bamboo or on strips of silk, which were called Ji in those days. Nevertheless the soaring cost of silk and the weight of bamboo, these materials were not convenient. Around then Tsai Lun came up with the idea of making use of bark, fish nets, hemp, and rags. In 105 years after the birth of Christ he submitted a report to the emperor about the process of paper making and was endowed with high accolade for his ideas. Consequently, since those days paper has been utilized all over and is known as the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
Whether this historical reference is deserved, will likely never be uncovered! However, the major consideration is that they discovered that they could grind particular compounds derived from plants in to a paste, cut out spume, put the paste in water, sieve it out onto textile sheets giving it enough time to dry out. When fully dried, it compressed into a firm, dense sheet that turned out to be very light, and provided that it was not allowed to come into contact with water, proved particularly tenacious.
This most simple of papermaking techniques is still being used in exactly a similar way around Nepal and Tibet, the very first places to make use of the craft from South East Asia. A basic frame utilises a cotton cloth pulled and held over a single side, diluted pulp is emptied into the opposite side and moved around until it has become even. Then it is left hanging so that it will allow the liquid to drain and the mush to dry into a paper sheet which will be able to be taken off.
As time went by an extremely talented developer came to the conclusion that making a frame with ribbing and putting in place a fine removable bamboo mat across this, would enable the procedure to be speeded up to a great degree. Instead of tying up a single mould for each sheet of parchment, consequently severely restricting the number of sheets that are able to be manufactured at one time, a stack of sieved mash was able to be built up a layer at a time, with merely a piece of cotton thread between them to facilitate separation at a later time. The stack would then be squeezed very lightly, and every sheet of mache moved to a board to dry.