papermaker

Mill craft worker

A papermaker is a person or company that manufactures paper.

The term applies equally to someone operating industrial machinery at a mill and to artisans crafting sheets by hand: The papermaker dipped the screen into the vat of pulp.

Papermaking has existed for nearly two thousand years.

craft

handmade

Created manually, not mechanically

deckle · couching · pressing · drying · sheet · vat · watermark · sizing · cotton · linen

industrial

mill

Grain-crushing facility

bleaching · refining · kraft · sulfite · sulfate · lignin · screening · calendering · coating · newsprint

texture

embossed

Having raised design

  • grainCereal plant's harvest unit
  • fibrousMade of threads
  • matteNon-reflective surface finish

glossy · satin · coated · uncoated · calendered · corrugated · laid · wove · tooth · cockle

recycled

sustainability

Capacity to endure indefinitely

reprocessing · recovered · post-consumer · pulping · sorting · cleaning · renewable · circular · resourceful

Categories
Opposites
production chain role

papermakerprinter

Machine producing paper copies

publisher · end user · bookseller · reader · writer

material creation vs destruction

papermakerpaper shredder

Device slicing documents into strips

incinerator

Family

papermaking, papermakers

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