SC - duck and bread
Tara Sersen
tsersen at nni.com
Wed Aug 30 10:29:32 PDT 2000
> recipes seem to prove. As for the poem, which is a
> puzzle, I ask this: how thin was paper during the time
> that this poem was written? A lot of the home-made
> papers that I have seen many paper-makers produce
> don't come anywhere near as thin as modern papers or
> modern filo dough.
I've handled real, live 15th century books of days with paper almost as fine
as the stuff they print Bibles on nowadays. I've also purchased hand-made papers
from Pearl Arts & Crafts that were extremely fine, almost onion-skin weight.
The reason why most hand-made paper is fairly crude is that most of us trying
to make it are amateurs - even those who do it alot don't do it as a career,
only a hobby.
- -Magdalena vander Brugghe
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