China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary (1812)
Breton, M. (Jean Baptiste Joseph), Bertin, Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste, 1719-1792, Freschi, Andrea, b. 1774 · London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale ... · leaf 55
position of the paper,are got in readiness; these are a glue,prepared from the hao-teng, a glu-tinous plant, something of the vine kind,which grows in the mountains. Theycut some stems of this plant, which, afterhaving been laid to steep three or fourdays in water, produce an oily and glu-tinous… … NV ^v-:nr J\RTS, AND MANUFACTURES^ 39 SECOND PROCESS IN PAPER-MAKING. When the bamboo has been reduced toshreds, which have been bleached anddried in the sun, they are broken, piledup in a mortar, and exposed to thesteam of boiling water. It is then eitherpounded by a man with all his strength,or…
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