Glossary Keyword: Paper

Khar impure naturally occuring substance pounded into a powder and is used in a manner similar to carbonate soda used to help soften paper into a slurry.

kalpi: Place for paper

Chhapri is a screen, like a mir.

Cunam: lime lined reservoir where beating/pulping was undertaken.

Dhegi: heavy fixed hammer used to pound base materials in the first stage of the pulping process.

Zein: Corn protection.

Wood Pulp  is one source of fiber, which helps constitute the base material from which to make pulp. It generally comes from softwoods such as spruce, pine, and larchwod. However, is can also be made from hardwoods like eucalyptus and jarrah.

Watermarks are a design made visible in the sheet of paper because the cross weave mesh of fibers is made thinner and less opaque in the image area allowing more light to shine through. The watermark is applied during sheet formation and is impressed father into the sheet during coloring.

Vellum made from the entire skin. Less consistent in appearance than parchment. Scraped and rubbed with lime and stretched, sanded with fine pumic to make it smooth for writing. To produce a single copy of the Gothenberg Bible would need 300 sheep.

Tyvek: synthetic coating