The origins of real paper happened in China. Similar to the Egyptians, the Chinese had, virtually 5,000 years in the past, brought out a style of writing that used pictures. The Egyptians also had been making use of several types of objects to scribe on, usually pieces of bamboo and processed silk and possibly the barkcloth they utilized for other uses derived from the Paper. Mulberry was made use of too.
Historical documentation leads us to believe that in 105 years after the birth of Christ a government worker going by the name of Tsai Lung, developed papyrus, though it is almost certain from archaeological discoveries that it was actually in existence in South East Asia for probably two centuries prior to him.
Way back in times gone by scribing was usually done on some form of bamboo or sometimes on lengths of silk, which were called Ji in those days. Nevertheless silk being expensive and bamboo being very weighty, these two materials were not convenient. Due to these factors Tsai Lun came up with the idea of utilizing bark, rags, fish nets, and hemp. In 105AD he put an idea to the emperor on the production of paper and got much praise for his abilities. From this time paper has been utilized everywhere and is known as the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
If indeed this particular claim is Tsai's entitlement or not, will probably never be known! Nonetheless the most important consideration is that it was discovered that they could grind particular substances taken from plant matter into a mash, throw out unwanted materials, put the mash in water, screen it out onto fabric sheets giving it time to dry. After drying, it calcified into a firm, tough sheet that was really light, and provided that it did not get wet, proved decidedly firm.
This the most simple of papermaking techniques is still in use in exactly the same way in and around Nepal and Tibet, the very first areas to make use of the technolgies from what is now the People's Republic of China. A simple frame makes use of a cloth made from cotton pulled and held over a single side, very watery grume is emptied in to the far end and spread around until it has reached an even state. It is then left hanging that will let the liquid to leave it and the paste to dry into a paper sheet which can be peeled off.
It eventually came to pass that an extremely talented developer worked out that building a frame with ribbing and placing a delicate removable bamboo mat over it, would allow the paper-making process to be quickened incredibly. Instead of utilizing a single mold for every sheet of paper, consequently severely limiting the amount of sheets that may be made at one time, a stack of sieved pulp was able to be built up layer upon layer, with merely a piece of cotton thread between them to help with separation at a later time. The stack would then be pressed very lightly, and each layer of mush transferred to a dry board.