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The paper explores the album of fingernail calligraphy, Arabe 6870, from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, whose pages are made with Finnish paper manufactured at Kymmene Ak. between 1899 and 1913. More broadly the article... more
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      PapermakingPersian manuscriptsQajar ArtQajar Iran
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      Mechanical EngineeringSignal ProcessingBook and Paper ConservationPattern Recognition
In the present studies Pine needles are evaluated for pulp and paper making properties. Different studies reported different composition of Pine needles. The pine needles collected from hilly zones of India has, 43% lignin, 52%... more
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      Environmental EngineeringPapermakingChemical Composition
The attempt to present a generalized pattern of modern trends, methods and means of technological research of historical papers is undertaken in this work for the first time in Russian historiography. The border of “modernity” in... more
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      Material Culture StudiesBook and Paper ConservationManuscript StudiesPapermaking
Revisión de las tecnologías y prácticas utilizadas en la elaboración del papel, como pretexto para abordar las dimensiones y formatos que ha ido adquiriendo este soporte a través de los años. Se tratan los métodos de elaboración de... more
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      PapermakingPapel
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      Papermakingکاغذسازی
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      Ecosystems EcologyBook and Paper ConservationPapermakingEarly Modern Sonnet Sequences
Paper was invented in China in the centuries before Christ and carried by Buddhist monks throughout East and Central Asia, where Muslim Arabs encountered it in the eighth century CE. Muslims carried paper and papermaking to the... more
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      PapermakingHistory of Paper
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      Art HistoryMuseum StudiesCultural HeritageBook History
In old Javanese and Chinese texts there are various references made to ‘Javanese paper’. This immediately gives rise to the question of whether paper was ever actually produced in Indonesia in the distant past. In theory this is possible... more
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      HistoryIndonesian StudiesPapermakingCodicology
This report presents an overview of recent research in preservation of three information carriers: paper, film and photographic materials, and magnetic tape. It covers significant developments internationally over the last five years and... more
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      Book and Paper ConservationPapermakingConservation Science
This essay tells the story about the material origins of copperplate engraving in late Gothic and early modern Europe; how its rapid evolution into a mature graphic art form by the end of the 15th century was triggered by a concatenation... more
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      Material Culture StudiesPapermakingHistory of CommunicationBook History (History)
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      PapermakingTaiwan StudiesChina
For the special issue of Hand Papermaking on "Paper in Performance," this short essay primarily discusses paper works by Shiraga Fujiko (1928 - 2015), an early female member of Gutai, the Japanese avant-garde art collective active in... more
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      Contemporary ArtPerformance ArtJapanese ArtPapermaking
The present work is devoted to the development of a rapid method for analyzing lignin in paper using IR reflectance spectra from its surface. To develop the method, the IR absorption and reflectance spectra of model paper samples made... more
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      Material Culture StudiesBook and Paper ConservationPapermakingPulp and Paper + Recycled Paper
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      Islamic LawNew MediaWorld HistoryPapermaking
In old Javanese and Chinese texts there are various references made to ‘Javanese paper’. This immediately gives rise to the question of whether paper was ever actually produced in Indonesia in the distant past. In theory this is possible... more
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      HistoryIndonesian StudiesPapermakingCodicology
A study into the politics of amate and huun so-called bark papers (tapa) from Mexico
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      Mexican StudiesPapermakingMayan StudiesTapa
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      PapermakingNorman SicilyHistory of Medieval TechnologyIslamic and Norman Sicily
The influence of rosin (0.1-0.3%), alum (0.4-0.6%), polyaluminum chloride (0.3-0.7%), and starch (0.5-1.5%) in the making of paper from old corrugated container (OCC) pulp on the freeness, breaking length, tear index, and burst index of... more
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      PapermakingStarchAlumRosin Sizing
Interview from the "Genizah Fragments" blog with Melonie Schmierer-Lee about different types of paper found in the Cairo Genizah.
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      Print CultureJewish StudiesMedieval HistoryBook History
In old Javanese and Chinese texts there are various references made to ‘Javanese paper’. This immediately gives rise to the question of whether paper was ever actually produced in Indonesia in the distant past. In theory this is possible... more
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      HistoryIndonesian StudiesPapermakingCodicology
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      PapermakingHistory of civil engineeringHistory of Paper MoneyBanknotes
Twin-screw extrusion pulping is a new approach to the manufacture of pulp for paper production, designed for non-wood feedstocks. In this research, the production of pulp from rice stem with a newly fabricated twin-screw extruder was... more
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      PapermakingPulpingCentral Composite DesignBioresources
Essay about classification of the various kinds of paper found in the Persian manuscripts from 15th C.
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      PapermakingCodicology of medieval manuscriptsPersian manuscripts
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      Cultural HistoryArchival StudiesBook and Paper ConservationTibetan Studies
Cationic rosin has many uses in papermaking; however, its performance as an internal sizing agent differs depending on the circumstance, especially in the recycling of pulps. In this study, a comprehensive laboratory approach was used to... more
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      PapermakingPaper RecyclingLignoselullosic Biorefinery
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      Manuscripts and Early Printed BooksCentral Asian StudiesPapermaking
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      PapermakingSupply ChainSericultureWool Textile Industry
Made of recycled clothes, slaughtered animals, and felled trees, Bibles in Renaissance England were filled with visible traces of ecological matter, remainders that remind one that words on a page are thought fused with—and inflected... more
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      Plant EcologyBook HistoryHistory of the BookRenaissance Studies
Script for video https://youtu.be/RlMMy2P8JME on traditional handmade papermaking, the itinerary of paper to Europe, and the different types of paper during the Middle Ages.
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      Manuscript StudiesPapermakingCodicologyManuscripts (Medieval Studies)
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      Educational TechnologyBook and Paper ConservationHistory of TechnologyPapermaking
This study investigates the effect of six cultivars named Cubano, Niger, Cubano 2032, 9277, 7551 and, 7566, of kenaf and three harvesting time stages on pulp and handsheet paper properties of kenaf, which were accomplished in north of... more
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      PapermakingNatural Kenaf fibreBioresources
Lötzsch, U., Brinker, U., Teßmann, B., Schultz, M., Pelenitsyna, J., Hiepe, L., Begerock, A.-M.
“Raren Stücken auf der Spur – Schädel aus Pappmaché in deutschen Sammlungen“. In: Das Altertum (in print).
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      AnthropologyPapermakingSkull
Pulping of wheat straw was studied with an organic solvent (glycerol) and 2% NaOH as a catalyst, and without catalyst, at various cooking times (180, 90, 45 and 30 min), and at reflux temperature (195-205 °C) as cooking temperature, to... more
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      Materials SciencePapermakingGlycerolOrganosolv Pulping
ulping of wheat straw by dimethylformamide was studied in order to investigate the effects of the cooking variables temperature (190, 200, and 210°C), time (120, 150, and 180 min), and organic solvent ratio (30, 50, and 70%) of... more
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      ChemistryOptimization (Mathematics)PapermakingOrganosolv Pulping
Building novel Digital Music Instruments (DMIs) requires the use of a variety of sensors to transduce human actions to electronic signals that will control sound synthesis variables. Among them, contact (force/pressure) sensors such as... more
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      Materials ScienceMusic TechnologyPapermaking
This review for the first time describes bibliographical and archival materials, dealt with the history of Russian paper industry from P.A. Kartavov’s collections, being stored in the Manuscript Department of the National Library of... more
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      Economic HistoryBibliographyPapermakingRussian History
Frogmore paper mill is a kind of time machine that allows historians of technology and the senses to study mechanized paper-making as it was done one hundred years ago. Before the introduction of instrumentation and automatic process... more
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      History of Science and TechnologyHistory of TechnologySound studiesPapermaking
THE PAPERBACK COVER of one of my copies of Shakespeare's Sonnets has been defaced. The cover image is an enlarged detail from Rembrandt's Man Sharpening a Quill (1632), but the man's face is missing.' Only his hands are... more
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      Ecosystems EcologyBook and Paper ConservationPapermakingEarly Modern Sonnet Sequences
Modification of calcium carbonate particles with surfactant significantly improves the properties of the calcium carbonate coating on paper. In this study, unmodified and CTAB (hexadecyltetramethylammonium bromide)-and oleate-modified... more
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      Materials EngineeringChemical EngineeringMaterials ScienceComposite Materials and Structures
In March 2018, two library conservators from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign brought a class of information science graduate students on a field trip to the Fresh Press Agricultural Fiber Papermaking... more
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      Book and Paper ConservationPapermakingLibrary and Information StudiesArt and Design
There are various applications of organosilicon compounds in papermaking. Additionally, organosilicons have been applied to improve the water resistance of some lignocellulosic materials. The performance, however, of such compounds for... more
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      PapermakingSizing
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      Cultural HeritageBook and Paper ConservationTibetan StudiesManuscript Studies
‫گردد.‬ ‫مي‬ ‫تشكر‬ ‫و‬ ‫تقدير‬ ‫ضمنا‬ " ‫آقاي‬ ‫از‬ ‫شاروقي‬ ‫علي‬ ‫مهندس‬ ‫در‬ ‫كه‬ ‫ويرايش‬ ‫پااليش‬ ‫و‬ ‫مجموعه‬ ‫اين‬ ‫داشتند،‬ ‫تنگاتنگي‬ ‫همكاري‬ ‫كمال‬ ‫و‬ ‫تقدير‬ ‫گردد.‬ ‫مي‬ ‫تشكر‬ ‫مهندس‬ ‫چراني‬ ‫رضايتي‬ ‫پژمان‬ ‫چهار‬ ‫شيفت‬... more
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      Papermakingکاغذسازی
Pulping of wheat straw was studied with an organic solvent (glycerol) and 2% NaOH as a catalyst, and without catalyst, at various cooking times (180, 90, 45 and 30 min), and at reflux temperature (195-205 C) as cooking temperature, to... more
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      PapermakingGlycerolOrganosolv Pulping
Modification of calcium carbonate particles with surfactant significantly improves the properties of the calcium carbonate coating on paper. In this study, unmodified and CTAB (hexadecyltetramethylammonium bromide)-and oleate-modified... more
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      Materials EngineeringChemical EngineeringMaterials ScienceComposite Materials and Structures
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      PapermakingWatermarksHistory of Paper
https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/avery/digitalserlio/essays/mussolin.html The contents of the paper were presentend at the «Digital Serlio Symposium», held at the Avery Library, Columbia University, October 19, 2018, on the... more
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      PapermakingRenaissance and Baroque Architectural DrawingsSebastiano Serlio