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Papermakers forming the sheets in molds (top left), couching, or layering, the sheets (top center), and pressing the stack (top right)

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Description: Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World
Paper, one of the most ubiquitous materials in modern life, was invented in China a century or two before the Common, or Christian, Era. Nearly a millennium passed, however, before Europeans first used the stuff, and they did not make it themselves until the eleventh and twelfth centuries. European Christians learned about making paper from the Muslims...
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Related print edition pages: pp.1-15
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00217.001

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