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Wooden mallet for pounding cooked fiber to soften it

Daphne fiber prepared for papermaking

Papermaker floats a cloth mould and distributes the fibers by hand

Wet fresh sheets remain on the cloth mould while drying in the sun

Papermaker in remote high altitude village makes sheets that become covered with ice crystals as they dry

Easily removing dry sheets from their cloth moulds

Interleaving sheet called hiran kechelli used to prevent pigment off-set

Miniature painter shows crude translucent skin sheets used for tracing

Indigo colored paper coated with plant dye

Gold sprinkled Zarafshan paper