AD 610 Papermaking spreads across Asia, Middle East and Europe

AD 610 Papermaking spreads across Asia, Middle East and Europe

Chinese papermaking techniques reached Korea at an early date and were introduced to Japan in the year 610. In these two countries paper is still made by hand on a large scale in the old tradition, i.e. from the fresh bast (inner bark) fibres of the mulberry tree...
AD 105 China: birthplace of paper

AD 105 China: birthplace of paper

The birth of paper, as we know it today, took place under the Chinese Han Dynasty in AD 105. Ts’ai Lun, a court official, invented a papermaking process which primarily used rags (textile waste) as the raw material with which to make paper.Chinese papermakers...