The story of real paper started in what is now the People's Republic of China. Like the people of Egypt, the Chinese had, virtually 5,000 years in the past, created a pictographic form of writing. The Egyptians also had been making use of various types of objects to scribe on, usually strips of bamboo and woven silk and possibly the barkcloth they made for other uses derived out of the Paper. Mulberry was used as well.
History leads us to believe that in 105AD a government worker by the name of Tsai Lung, invented papyrus, though it is clear from finds by archaeologists that actually it was in existence in China for more than likely two hundred years prior to him.
Way back during ancient times scribing was usually on some derivative of bamboo or occasionally on lengths of silk, which were called Ji in those days. Nonetheless the soaring cost of silk and bamboo being very heavy, these materials were not of great use. Then Tsai Lun came up with the idea of utilizing bark, rags, hemp, and fish nets. In 105 years after the birth of Christ he put an idea to the emperor with regard to the process of making paper and got much praise for his idea. Consequently, from those days paper has been used globally and is called the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
If indeed the above title is correct, will likely not ever be known! However, the most important consideration has to be that the discovery was made that they could grind particular compounds taken from plant matter in to a mush, oust impurities, float the mush in water, filter it onto cloth sheets giving it time to dry. When it dried, it congealed into a hard, robust sheet that turned out to be extraordinarily light, and as long as it was not allowed to get damp or wet, turned out to be decidedly resilient.
It's a fact that this most simple of paper making technologies is still practised in precisely a similar way in Nepal and Tibet, the initial countries to take the technolgies from South East Asia. A basic frame has a type of cotton cloth stretched over a single side, thin pulp is poured into the opposite side and spread around until it is even. After which it is left hanging somewhere to let the liquid to drain out of it and the grume to dry into a sheet of paper which will be able to be taken off.
As time went by an extremely clever individual figured that constructing a frame with ribbing and placing a delicate bamboo mat that is replaceable across this, would allow the paper-making procedure to be speeded up fantastically. Rather than utilizing one mould for each sheet of parchment, therefore severely limiting the number of sheets that could be produced at the same time, a stack of sieved mache was able to be built up a layer at a time, with merely a strip of cotton thread between them which would enable later separation. The stack would then be pressed gently, and every sheet of paste moved to a dry place.