The story of proper paper happened in South East Asia. Like the indigenous people of Egypt, the Chinese had, almost 50 centuries in the past, created a style of pictographic writing. They also had been utilizing various types of things to scribe on, usually pieces of bamboo and woven silk and it is possible that the barkcloth they made for other uses from the Paper. Mulberry was used as well.
Legend points to the fact that in 105AD a member of the government named Tsai Lung, developed papyrus, though it is almost certain from finds by archaeologists that actually it was being worked with in China for probably two centuries prior to him.
Way back during ancient times gone by writing was usually on some form of bamboo or sometimes on lengths of silk, which were known as Ji then. But silk being expensive and the weight of bamboo, these two materials were inconvenient. Around then Tsai Lun thought of using the bark from trees, fish nets, hemp, and rags. In 105 years after the birth of Christ he submitted a report to the emperor with regard to the process of paper manufacture and got much praise for his ideas. From that period paper has been in use all over and is called the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
Whether this historical reference is Marquis Tsai's entitlement, will likely never be known! Nevertheless the main factor has to be that they discovered that they could grind certain substances taken from plant material in to a mache, bstract unwanted materials, put the mache in liquid, sieve it out onto textile sheets allowing it to dry. After the drying process was complete, it conglomerated into a firm, durable sheet that turned out to be exceedingly light, and as long as it did not get damp or wet, proved very tenacious.
This easiest of papermaking technologies is even now practised in exactly a similar way in and around Nepal and Tibet, the initial areas to learn the techniques from what is now the People's Republic of China. A simple frame makes use of a cloth made from cotton stretched over a single side, watery grume is poured into the far end and moved around until it is level. Then it is left hanging that will allow the water to leave it and the mush to dry in to a parchment sheet which can be stripped off.
By and by an extremely talented developer came to the conclusion that making a frame with ribbing and putting a fine bamboo mat that is removable across this, would let the paper-making procedure to be quickened greatly. Instead of utilizing one mould for every sheet of parchment, consequently severely restricting the amount of sheets that can be made at one time, a stack of sieved mash was able to be built up a layer at a time, with merely a piece of cotton thread between them which would enable later separation. The stack would then be squeezed very gently, and each sheet of pulp moved to a dry board.