How to make Do paper?
Groundwater. First, paper mulberry trees are peeled and soak directly into the Lich River within one to three days, then drained. After the first stage of this process actually starts. The bark is soaked and turned brown will be cut off most of the visible line, then cut into sections and stacked. Next, the bark is put in lime water tank immersion for 24 hours at a rate of 12kg to 100kg poonah lime.
Sepia. The oven is placed right embankment Lich River and pond where immersion insatiable. Insatiable is added to the cauldron heated by rice husk and wood swung closed mouth (under H. Oger) or sealed with clay to keep the heat if cooked by heat insatiable (for about 8 to 10 hours) or a water-like.
Laundry. Insatiable then be washed thoroughly with clean water to remove impurities. To laundry baskets were used for large bamboo. After cleaning, re insatiable liming few days. This time the shelling started poonah really.
Peeled red and classification. Women will again peeled knife black shell leaves and white to keep the paper manufacturer with the best quality. Black crust will be treated separately and be used to produce low-quality paper over. Insatiable after sorting will be bundled into bundles and soaked in clean water tank.
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Air shelving and pulp. After being washed and drained, insatiable been grinding it. At the village, today we still see a great millstone were men with baseball racks for hand, foot stamping or Jib system for shelving the meal. When achieve necessary adhesion, measured flour into the pot soaked in clean water.Today, the hard work is replaced by electric kneading machine.
Poonah powder. Is soaked in the tank, measured soluble powder according to the top of the paper wanted and called "slurry". Red flour stirring constantly, when I reached into powder, is almost impossible to feel anything but a slightly viscous liquid. Previously barrow (a type Clerodendron) is used to stir the powder in the timber by mucus secretions stick to the dough, allow to stack the sheets of paper together without sticking together. Sold under the bar, wood is the thin tissue soaked for 12 hours, the time to slime secreted and bind to red flour. It will mix about 2kg per 60kg insatiable curious.Today, people no longer use the plant anymore but instead a kind of additives have similar characteristics and additives are considered as know-how.
Seo paper. People use a wooden mold tension curtain cork layer called sickle seo. Seo sickle was left in the tank lurched perturbed poonah powder to a powder layer adhesion on sickle. Later it was lifted out of the tank and sickle seo shaking right then left. The last time this has helped shake drain, powder dispersion helps them. Meanwhile, due to a layer of powder on the blinds. To end this stage, it is placed on the pedestal seo sickle, then withdrew in the upper part of the mold taken out to remove the layer of fibrous bamboo blinds due to stay on it. Shutters cork was capsized by contrast, this allows Rice paper in the bottom layer is close to the stack of paper correctly before. When the blinds are raised at that layer under wave motion and be folded up wood molding wood molding and then close again. Due to the need to make a clever way, often because women do seo undertake and requires proficient hands; This operation takes about 10 seconds and is repeated at a pace almost a machine.
Pressed. Wet paper first husband was put up on a board and a brick to force water down. Then, it was put into the water to dry pressed and pressed to increase the cohesiveness of the paper. Previously, people used to primitive presses made a piece of wood with a knee to the holes on the wall or on a tree trunk acts as a lever on the stack of paper, and carefully controlled so as not to tearing the paper fibers.Today, with screw presses used to make this work. Paper has been squeezed out of water before being dried, the paper quality as evenly. Meanwhile the remaining stack of paper 50% water.
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Drying. This step can be done simply as a sun, using paper exposed perches to be sure. Yen Thai Village kiln used almost exclusively. Each sheet of paper is coated on the wall ovens separated by a distance that can be peeled off after the paper has been dried. The temperature maintained at 30 ° C and not be too high to let the paper dry gradually and obtain softness and white, slightly rustic and no traces of gold