The story of real paper happened in South East Asia. Similar to the indigenous people of Egypt, the Chinese had, nearly 5000 years ago, developed a type of writing that used pictures. The Egyptians also had been using various kinds of things to write upon, notably strips of bamboo and silk woven into a fine fabric and it is possible that the barkcloth they made for other reasons derived out of the Paper. Mulberry was used as well.
History tells us that in 105 years after the birth of Christ a member of the government going by the name of Tsai Lung, brought out papyrus, though it seems from finds by archaeologists that it was actually being used in China for at least two hundred years before Tsai Lung.
In ancient times gone by setting down words was usually on some derivative of bamboo or sometimes on pieces of silk, which were then called ji. Nevertheless the soaring cost of silk and bamboo being heavy, these materials were inconvenient. Then Tsai Lun thought of making use of bark, hemp, rags, and fish nets. In 105AD he delivered a report to the emperor with regard to the process of paper manufacture and received much praise for his idea. Consequently, from those days paper has been utilized globally and is called the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
If this title is Tsai's entitlement, will probably never be uncovered! Nonetheless the main factor is that they found that they could grind certain compounds taken from plant matter into a mash, cut out spume, place the mash in water, screen it onto textile sheets allowing it to dry. After the drying process was complete, it consolidated into a firm, tenacious sheet that turned out to be extraordinarily light, and as long as it was not allowed to get damp or wet, proved decidedly resilient.
This simplest of paper making techniques is even now in use in precisely the same way in Tibet and Nepal, the first countries to make use of the techniques from what is now the People's Republic of China. A basic frame has a kind of cotton cloth stretched over a single side, thin mush is put in to the far end and spread around until it has reached an even state. Then it is left so that it will let the liquid to drain out of it and the pulp to dry into a parchment sheet which will be able to be removed by stripping off.
As time went by a talented developer realized that constructing a frame with ribbing and putting in place a fine replaceable bamboo mat over this, would allow the process to be accelerated incredibly. Instead of utilizing a single mold for each sheet of parchment, consequently severely limiting the number of sheets that are able to be produced at the same time, a stack of sieved grume was able to be built up layer upon layer, with only a strip of cotton thread between them in order to facilitate later separation. The stack would then be pressed slightly, and every sheet of mache transferred to a dry place.