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Plant drying for papermaking
Jute or hemp plants dry outside papermaker's place
Rametta inner bast fiber once used to make paper in the Deccan
Hands remove outer chaff to reveal the strong inner fibers used for papermaking
Paper close-up shows fibers
Close-up of paper with fiber
Example of polished paper
Manuscript with fine, well beaten, polished paper
Wooden foot stamper
Replica of wooden foot stamper, called a dhenki, used in India
Papermaking ruins with holes that held the wooden pivot of a stamper called dhenki.
Ruins with holes used to support trip hammer, dhenki
Village Hollander beater
Local version of a western influence Hollander beater
Re-pulping paper
Textured pattern on floor used to breakup old paper for repulping
Paper fermenting
Pulp fermenting with stamping pit
Foot-stamping pulp in a pit
Foot-stamping pulp in a pit