The history of genuine paper happened in what is now the People's Republic of China. Similar to the indigenous people of Egypt, the Chinese had, nearly 5,000 years ago, invented a type of writing that used pictures. The Egyptians also had been using various objects to write on, usually pieces of bamboo and woven silk and possibly the barkcloth they used for other unconnected purposes derived from the Paper. Mulberry was ased too.
Legend tells us that in 105 years after the birth of Christ a member of the government by the name of Tsai Lung, created paper, though it is clear from archaeological digs that actually it was being worked with in China for probably two hundred years before him.
Way back in ancient times setting down words was mainly done on bamboo or sometimes on strips of silk, which were known as Ji in those days. However, silk was expensive and bamboo being too heavy, these two materials were not convenient. About this time Tsai Lun thought of utilizing tree bark, fish nets, hemp, and rags. In 105AD he put an idea to the emperor on the production of paper and was endowed with high accolade for his ideas. Consequently, since that time paper has been utilized every place and is called the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
If indeed this accolade is relevant or not, will probably never be uncovered! Nevertheless the major factor is that it was discovered that if they ground some compounds taken from plant matter in to a mash, bstract impure materials, place the mash in liquid, sieve it out onto cloth sheets allowing it to dry. After the drying process was complete, it compacted into a hard, dense sheet that was exceedingly light, and as long as it did not get wet, turned out to be astonishingly tenacious.
It's a fact that this very easy of papermaking techniques is even now still being used in precisely the same way in and around Tibet and Nepal, the initial regions to learn the technolgies from South East Asia. A simple frame has a cloth made from cotton pulled and held over a single side, watery grume is put into the far end and spread about until it is even. It is then suspended that will allow the water to drain out of it and the pulp to dry into a paper sheet which can be removed by peeling.
It eventually came to pass that a clever developer figured that constructing a frame with ribbing and putting in place a delicate replaceable bamboo mat across this, would enable the paper-making procedure to be quickened to a great degree. Instead of tying up a single mold for every sheet of paper, therefore severely limiting the amount of sheets that are able to be made at one time, a stack of sieved paste was able to be built up a layer at a time, with merely a length of cotton thread between them in order to help with separation at a later time. The stack would then be pressed gently, and each layer of mache shifted to a dry place.