Glossary of Papermaking Terms

Abaca alum AMATL bast fiber beater bond chemical color Color-field paintings cooked and bleached couched sheets coucher create damp sheets deckle dried sheet dyes edges embossed fabric felts fibers for papermaking fibrils fillers finished sheet freeness freshly gampi gampi fibers handmade paper Hawaiian term hemicelluloses hemp high shrinkage Hollander INTERNAL SIZING Japan Japanese paper Japanese papermaking Japanese term Korean term kozo kurokawa laid mould lamination lignins linters loft drying machine Malvaceae Manila Hemp method mitsumata mold Moraceae Moraceae family nagashizuki naginata neri newly formed sheet paper casting paper mulberry pattern pigments plaster rags raw material removed screen shakes the mould sheet of paper sheetforming process SHIROKAWA smooth stamper tamezuki tamped tapa technique term referring thickness thin Thymelaeaceae tororo-aoi translucent trip hammers usually vacuum table/press vatman viscous formation aid watermark Western hand papermaking Western papermaking wet sheets white inner bark wires World Print Council wove mould woven