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Indian and Islamic Craft Traditions

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Translucent tracing sheets

Miniature painter shows crude translucent skin sheets used for tracing

Translucent animal skin interleaving sheet in a Koran

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Tradititonal papermaking in Erandol, in Jalgaon district in Maharashtra state

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Traditional pulp washing

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Traditional pulp washing

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Traditional pulp washing

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Traditional papier-mache

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Traditional papermaking set-up

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Traditional cloth sling method of squeezing the water out of the pulp after it is washed.

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Tower-type wooden water-wheel, may not have been used for papermaking, but is shown as an example. Early mills often used water-wheels to power pulping of raw material.

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