SC - multiple messages
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 29 18:58:09 PDT 2000
In a message dated 8/29/00 8:17:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ahrenshav at yahoo.com writes:
<< A lot of the homemade
papers that I have seen many paper-makers produce
don't come anywhere near as thin as modern papers or
modern filo dough. >>
Papyrus can be pretty thin or at least thinner than most hand made papers. I
have also seen rice papers made by hand that are very thin. I guess the
question is, has anyone on the list seen actual manuscript pages from the mid
east dating from the 13rh century and, if so, how thin were they?
Ras
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