The history of real paper happened in China. Similar to the indigenous people of Egypt, the Chinese had, nearly five thousand years in the past, developed a pictographic form of writing. They also had been using several kinds of things to write on, notably lengths of bamboo and woven silk and possibly the barkcloth they made for other reasons derived out of the Paper. Mulberry was made use of as well.
History leads us to believe that in 105 years after the birth of Christ an official by the name of Tsai Lung, brought out paper, though it is almost certain from finds by archaeologists that in fact it was being worked with in South East Asia for more than likely two centuries before him.
During ancient times gone by setting down words was generally done on bamboo or sometimes on pieces of silk, which were known as Ji then. Nonetheless the cost of silk and bamboo being very weighty, these materials were inconvenient. Due to this Tsai Lun thought of making use of bark from trees, rags, fish nets, and hemp. In 105AD he made a report to the emperor with regard to the process of paper making and received high accolade for his creativity. From that time paper has been used globally and is called the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
If the above historical tag is correct or not, will very likely never be known! However, the most important thing must be that they discovered that they could pound particular substances taken from plants into a paste, cut out unwanted materials, place the paste in liquid, screen it onto cloth sheets allowing it to dry. After the drying process was complete, it dried into a firm, tenacious sheet that was decidedly light, and as long as it did not come into contact with water, proved very resilient.
This the most simple of papermaking technologies is even now in use in precisely the same way in and around Tibet and Nepal, the very first places to learn the technolgies from what is now the People's Republic of China. A simple frame makes use of a cloth manufactured from cotton pulled and held over a single side, diluted pulp is put in to the opposite side and spread about until it has become even. It is then suspended that will allow the water to leave it and the mush to dry in to a sheet of paper which can be removed by stripping off.
As time passed an extremely talented individual came to the conclusion that constructing a frame with ribs and putting a fine bamboo mat that is removable over this, would let the paper-making process to be speeded up incredibly. Rather than utilizing a single mould for every parchment sheet, consequently severely restricting the number of sheets that can be produced at the same time, a stack of sieved grume was able to be built up layer upon layer, with just a piece of cotton thread between them in order to help with later separation. The stack would then be squeezed very lightly, and each sheet of mache transferred to a dry place.