The story of genuine paper began in China. Like the Egyptians, the Chinese had, almost five thousand years ago, developed a type of writing that used pictures. The Egyptians too had been utilizing several types of objects to scribe on, most notably lengths of bamboo and silk woven into a fine fabric and possibly the barkcloth they were making for other reasons derived out of the Paper. Mulberry was made use of also.
History points to the fact that in 105 years after the birth of Christ an official called Tsai Lung, invented papyrus, though it seems from finds by archaeologists that it was actually in existence in South East Asia for probably two hundred years before Tsai Lung.
During olden times writing was generally done on some form of bamboo or occasionally on strips of silk, which were called Ji in those days. Nonetheless silk was expensive and bamboo being weighty, these two materials were not convenient. Due to this Tsai Lun thought of using bark from trees, rags, hemp, and fish nets. In 105AD he made a report to the emperor regarding the production of paper and got many accolades for his inventions. From that period paper has been utilized everywhere and is known as the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
Whether this title is deserved or not, will very likely not ever be known! But the main consideration is that the discovery was made that they could pound certain compounds derived from plant material into a pulp, cut out impurities, put the pulp in water, screen it onto textile sheets and allow it to dry. When it dried, it caked into a firm, robust sheet that turned out to be extraordinarily light, and as long as it was not allowed to get wet, turned out to be extremely resilient.
This most straightforward of papermaking technologies is even now practised in precisely the same way in Tibet and Nepal, the very first areas to pick up the craft from what is now the People's Republic of China. A basic frame utilizes a type of cotton cloth stretched over a single side, thin mache is situated in to the other end and spread around until it is level. It is then left that will enable the liquid to drain and the paste to dry into a sheet of paper which can be stripped off.
As time went by a very clever individual came to realize that making a frame with ribs and putting a delicate replaceable bamboo mat across this, would let the procedure to be speeded up to a great degree. Instead of utilizing one mold for every paper sheet, severely limiting the number of sheets that can be manufactured at one time, a stack of sieved mash was able to be built up layer upon layer, with merely a piece of cotton thread between them which would help with later separation. The stack would then be pressed slightly, and each sheet of mush transferred to a dry place.