The story of true paper began in China. Similar to the indigenous people of Egypt, the Chinese had, virtually 50 centuries in the past, invented a kind of writing that used pictures. They too had been making use of several types of objects to scribe upon, usually lengths of bamboo and processed silk and it is possible that the barkcloth they utilized for other unconnected purposes derived out of the Paper. Mulberry was made use of as well.
Historical documentation points to the fact that in 105 years after the birth of Christ a member of the government by the name of Tsai Lung, created papyrus, though it is almost certain from archaeological digs that it was actually being used in South East Asia for more than likely two hundred years prior to Tsai Lung.
Way back in times gone by scribing was generally on bamboo or sometimes on strips of silk, which were known as Ji in those days. Nevertheless silk was expensive and bamboo being heavy, these two materials were not convenient. Around then Tsai Lun thought of utilizing bark, rags, hemp, and fish nets. In 105AD he submitted a report to the emperor about the production of paper and received much praise for his ability. Consequently, from those days paper has been utilized all over the world and is called the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
If this particular claim is accurate or not, will likely never be uncovered! But the important factor must be that it was found that if they pounded particular substances taken from plant material in to a paste, withdraw spume, place the paste in water, sieve it out onto textile sheets giving it enough time to dry out. After the drying process was complete, it conglomerated into a firm, tenacious sheet that was decidedly light, and provided that it did not get damp, proved exceedingly robust.
This the easiest of paper making techniques is even now still being used in precisely a similar way in and around Tibet and Nepal, the very first countries to take the technolgies from what is now the People's Republic of China. A basic frame has a type of cotton cloth stretched over a single side, very watery pulp is situated into the opposite side and spread about until it is even. It is then left suspended that will let the liquid to drain and the grume to dry into a sheet of paper which will be able to be removed by peeling.
Eventually a talented developer came to the conclusion that building a frame with ribs and putting a fine bamboo mat that is replaceable across it, would allow the paper-making process to be quickened enormously. Instead of tying up a single mould for each sheet of parchment, consequently severely limiting the amount of sheets that may be produced at one time, a stack of sieved mache was able to be built up a layer at a time, with only a length of cotton thread between them which would enable separation at a later time. The stack would then be squeezed very gently, and every sheet of mush transferred to a dry board.