The story of real paper happened in what is now the People's Republic of China. Similar to the Egyptians, the Chinese had, virtually 5,000 years ago, brought out a kind of writing that used images. They also had been using many different things to scribe upon, most usually pieces of bamboo and woven silk and possibly the barkcloth they used for other reasons from the Paper. Mulberry was made use of too.
History leads us to believe that in 105AD a government worker called Tsai Lung, invented usable paper, although it is clear from finds by archaeologists that it was in fact being worked with in South East Asia for more than likely two hundred years prior to Tsai Lung.
During ancient times gone by setting down words was usually done on some form of bamboo or sometimes on strips of silk, which were then called ji. Nevertheless the cost of silk and bamboo being very weighty, these two materials were not convenient. About this time Tsai Lun came up with the idea of utilizing tree bark, rags, fish nets, and hemp. In 105 years after the birth of Christ he delivered a report to the emperor with regard to the process of paper manufacture and was endowed with much praise for his ideas. Consequently, from those distant days paper has been availed of globally and is known as the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
Whether this particular claim is Tsai's entitlement or not, will probably not ever be known! But the most important thing is that it was found that they could grind certain compounds derived from plant matter into a pulp, bstract impure materials, put the pulp in liquid, filter it out onto fabric sheets giving it time to dry. After the drying process was complete, it caked into a hard, firm sheet that turned out to be astonishingly light, and provided that it did not get damp or wet, turned out to be extraordinarily tenacious.
It's a fact that this very straightforward of paper making techniques is still in use in precisely a similar way in and around Tibet and Nepal, the first areas to take the craft from China. A basic frame makes use of a type of cotton cloth stretched over one side, very watery mash is put in to the far end and spread around until it is smooth. After which it is suspended somewhere to enable the water to drain and the paste to dry into a sheet of parchment which will be able to be stripped off.
By and by an extremely talented individual figured that constructing a frame with ribbing and putting a delicate bamboo mat that is removable over it, would let the procedure to be quickened to a great degree. Rather than using one mold for each sheet of paper, therefore severely restricting the number of sheets that are able to be made at the same time, a stack of sieved grume could be built up a layer at a time, with merely a length of cotton thread between them in order to facilitate later separation. The stack would then be pressed lightly, and every layer of mache transferred to a place to dry.