The origins of genuine paper happened in what is now the People's Republic of China. Similar to the Egyptians, the Chinese had, virtually 5,000 years in the past, created a type of writing that used pictures. The Egyptians too had been making use of several types of things to scribe on, most usually pieces of bamboo and processed silk and it is possible that the barkcloth they used for other reasons from the Paper. Mulberry was used as well.
Legend tells us that in 105AD a government worker going by the name of Tsai Lung, invented paper, although it is clear from archaeological finds that it was actually being worked with in South East Asia for at least two hundred years prior to Tsai Lung.
During ancient times gone by setting down words or pictograms was mainly on some form of bamboo or on strips of silk, which were then called ji. But the cost of silk and the weight of bamboo, these two materials were not convenient. Around then Tsai Lun thought of utilizing bark from trees, rags, hemp, and fish nets. In 105 years after the birth of Christ he delivered a report to the emperor regarding the process of paper making and got many accolades for his idea. Consequently, from those days paper has been used every place and is called the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
Whether the above title is deserved, will likely not ever be known! Nonetheless what is important has to be that they discovered that they could grind particular substances derived from plant matter in to a paste, oust impure substances, put the paste in water, filter it out onto textile sheets and give it time to dry out. After the drying process was complete, it dried into a hard, dense sheet that was remarkably light, and provided that it was not allowed to get damp, turned out to be very durable.
It's a fact that this very straightforward of paper making technologies is even now practised in exactly a similar way in Tibet and Nepal, the very first areas to learn the craft from China. A simple frame utilises a cloth made from cotton pulled and held over one side, watery grume is situated into the far side and moved around until it is even. Then it is left hanging so that it will let the liquid to leave it and the mache to dry into a paper sheet which may be removed by peeling.
As time passed a very clever individual realized that manufacturing a frame with ribs and putting in place a fine bamboo mat that is replaceable over this, would allow the procedure to be quickened to a much greater degree. Instead of using a single mould for every sheet of parchment, therefore severely restricting the number of sheets that may be manufactured at one time, a stack of sieved mash was able to be built up layer upon layer, with only a length of cotton thread between them in order to facilitate separation at a later time. The stack would then be pressed lightly, and each layer of mush moved to a dry place.