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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 60

An illustration from 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, leaf 60
nd put intoseveral baskets. The frame or chase, intended forraising the paper in sheets, is not madewith iron or brass wire as in Europe, butwith fine threads of bamboo: they aresmall rods which pass several timesthrough a steel wire-drawer, pierced withholes of different sizes; and are madeas fine… … *#f ARTS, AND MANUFACTURES. 43 The frame is siifFered to drain for a fewseconds, when the sheet is deposited ona piece of clean stuff without seam. Inour European paper-mills, a certain num-ber of these sheets are put into a pressfor the purpose of squeezing out the wet,and they are then hung on…

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