paper making

Creating writing sheets

The craft or industrial process of producing paper from fibrous materials.

Traditional papermaking involves pulping plant fibers—historically cotton, linen, or wood—suspending them in water, then pressing and drying the resulting sheets.

She studied Japanese papermaking techniques.

The term covers everything from handmade artisan sheets to massive factory operations.

Related

press · drying · couching · mulberry · hemp · bleaching · furnish · wood pulp · water · linter · cellulose · flax · rags · mold · bamboo · recycled · mill · parchment

Categories
Opposites
production vs destruction/consumption

paper makingpaper shredding

Cutting documents into pieces

paper recycling · pulping · incineration · deforestation

manufacturing stage

paper makingprinting

Reproducing text mechanically

bookbinding · publishing · writing · typesetting · packaging

material creation vs digital/paperless

paper makingdigitization

Analog-to-electronic transformation

digital publishing · dematerialization · digital transformation

Family

papermaking

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G