The story of true paper started in South East Asia. Similar to the indigenous people of Egypt, the Chinese had, almost 5,000 years in the past, brought out a type of pictographic writing. The Egyptians too had been utilizing various types of things to scribe upon, usually strips of bamboo and processed silk and it is possible that the barkcloth they utilized for other uses derived from the Paper. Mulberry was made use of too.
History tells us that in 105 years after the birth of Christ a government worker by the name of Tsai Lung, invented paper, though it is almost certain from archaeological digs that it was in fact being worked with in China for more than likely two centuries prior to him.
In times gone by setting down words or pictograms was mainly done on some form of bamboo or sometimes on lengths of silk, which were known as Ji in those days. However, the prohibitive cost of silk and bamboo being very heavy, these materials were inconvenient. Around then Tsai Lun thought of using the bark from trees, hemp, rags, and fish nets. In 105AD he made a report to the emperor about the process of making paper and was endowed with high praise for his creativity. Consequently, from that time paper has been in use everywhere and is called the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
Whether this accolade is correct, will very likely not ever be known! But the most important thing is that they found that they could grind some compounds derived from plant material into a pulp, oust impure materials, put the pulp in water, screen it out onto cloth sheets giving it enough time to dry out. When fully dried, it conglomerated into a hard, tenacious sheet that was remarkably light, and providing it did not come into contact with water, turned out to be decidedly robust.
It's a fact that this simple of paper making technologies is still being used in precisely the same way within Tibet and Nepal, the very first regions to pick up the technolgies from what is now the People's Republic of China. A simple frame makes use of a cloth made from cotton pulled and held over one side, diluted grume is put in to the opposite side and spread about until it is smooth. After which it is suspended that will allow the liquid to drain out of it and the paste to dry into a sheet of paper which can be stripped off.
As time went by a clever developer came to the conclusion that constructing a frame with an arrangement of ribbing and putting a fine removable bamboo mat over this, would let the paper-making procedure to be accelerated to a great degree. Instead of using 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 mush could be built up layer upon layer, with merely a piece of cotton thread between them to help with separation at a later time. The stack would then be squeezed very gently, and each sheet of mache transferred to a place to dry.