The story of genuine paper happened in South East Asia. Like the Egyptians, the Chinese had, almost 50 centuries in the past, brought out a style of pictographic writing. They too had been making use of many different objects to write upon, most commonly pieces of bamboo and woven silk and possibly the barkcloth they used for other uses derived from the Paper. Mulberry was made use of also.
Legend points to the fact that in 105 years after the birth of Christ an official by the name of Tsai Lung, developed usable paper, although it seems from archaeological finds that in fact it was around in China for probably two centuries prior to him.
Back in olden times scribing was mainly done on some derivative of bamboo or on strips of silk, which were then called ji. But silk being expensive and bamboo being heavy, these two materials were not convenient. Due to these factors Tsai Lun came up with the idea of using the bark from trees, hemp, rags, and fish nets. In 105AD he put an idea to the emperor regarding the process of making paper and was endowed with high praise for his abilities. Consequently, from those distant days paper has been availed of in almost every place on earth and is known as the "paper of Marquis Tsai".
If indeed the above title is correct or not, will likely never be uncovered! However, the important consideration has to be that the discovery was made that they could grind particular plant-derived compounds in to a grume, evacuate unwanted materials, place the grume in liquid, screen it out onto fabric sheets and allow it to dry. After the drying process was complete, it compacted into a hard, robust sheet that turned out to be particularly light, and as long as it was not allowed to get damp, turned out to be very tenacious.
This most straightforward of papermaking techniques is even now practised in exactly the same way within Tibet and Nepal, the initial regions to take the craft from what is now the People's Republic of China. A basic frame utilises a cloth manufactured from cotton stretched over one side, thin pulp is poured into the other side and spread around until it is even. After which it is left suspended so that it will let the water to drain and the mash to dry into a paper sheet which may be removed by stripping off.
Eventually an extremely talented individual realized that building a frame with ribbing and placing a delicate bamboo mat that is replaceable over this, would enable the paper-making procedure to be accelerated fantastically. Rather than utilizing one mould for every sheet of paper, consequently severely limiting the number of sheets that are able to be made at the same 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 to facilitate later separation. The stack would then be squeezed gently, and each sheet of paste moved to a board to dry.