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Dispersing vat fibers

Junnar papermaker uses a clay jug to create waves which organize fibers so that strong uniform sheets can be pulled

Junnar papermaker uses a clay jug to create waves which organize fibers so that strong uniform sheets can be pulled

Siaden Hussain, separates a post of wet sheets that have no interleaving, while her papermaker husband, Mohammad Hussain and child, look on.

Paper retains the brush marks from wall drying

Dry sheets are easily pealed off the wall

Line drying paper sheets still attached to their couching cloth

Line drying papers colored grey with chimney soot

Chabutras, drying platforms

Forester Gunga Singh demonstrates the flexible fibers of the daphne plant used in Himalayan papermaking