The origins of genuine paper happened in South East Asia. Like the people of Egypt, the Chinese had, nearly five thousand years ago, created a pictographic type of writing. The Egyptians too had been using many different types of things to scribe on, most usually pieces of bamboo and woven silk and possibly the barkcloth they used for other reasons derived out of the Paper. Mulberry was made use of too.
History points to the fact that in 105AD an official by the name of Tsai Lung, invented usable paper, though it seems from archaeological finds that it was in fact around in what is now the People's Republic of China for at least two hundred years before him.
Back during ancient times gone by scribing was usually done on some derivative of bamboo or on lengths of silk, which were then called ji. Nevertheless silk being expensive and bamboo being heavy, these two materials were not convenient. Due to this Tsai Lun thought of utilizing tree bark, hemp, fish nets, and rags. In 105 years after the birth of Christ he put an idea to the emperor about the process of making paper and got much praise for his thoughts. From those days paper has been availed of globally and is called the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
Whether this particular claim is Tsai's entitlement, will very likely never be uncovered! However, the main factor must be that the discovery was made that if they pounded some substances taken from plant matter into a pulp, bstract impure materials, put the pulp in liquid, sieve it onto fabric sheets and allow it to dry. After drying, it calcified into a firm, robust sheet that turned out to be decidedly light, and as long as it was not allowed to get damp, turned out to be very dense.
It's a fact that this simple of paper making technologies is even now in use in precisely a similar way in Tibet and Nepal, the initial regions to learn the technolgies from China. A basic frame utilizes a cloth manufactured from cotton stretched over one side, diluted mache is situated in to the far side and moved around until it has reached a level. After which it is left that will allow the water to drain and the grume to dry in to a sheet of parchment which may be removed by stripping off.
As time went by an extremely clever individual worked out that building a frame with ribbing and putting in place a delicate removable bamboo mat across this, would enable the procedure to be speeded up to a much greater degree. Instead of utilizing a single mold for each parchment sheet, consequently severely limiting the number of sheets that can be produced at one time, a stack of sieved paste could be built up a layer at a time, with only a length of cotton thread between them to enable separation at a later time. The stack would then be squeezed lightly, and every sheet of mash shifted to a board to dry.