What Is the Process of Making Modern Paper?

Paper is material that's produced by a combination of mechanically and chemically processing plant matter. So wood or grasses, or fabrics like cotton, that are derived from plants, you process it, and then you get a bunch of the cellulos fibres. That's the pulp. There's often usually lignat there as well. But in modern paper, we remove it, because that's what makes paper yellow as its ages and like a kind of crinkly and degrade m Then you like mush the pulp flat, and you dry it up, and thenyou cut it into your pieces. And that's paper. It's pretty amazing.

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When I was a kid, everything was on paper. Books were on paper, magazines were on paper, newspapers were on, you guessed it, paper. Nowadays, everything's on the internet, but you can still find paper if you know where to look!

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[Definition]

https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/exhibitions/cover-to-cover/papyrus/

[Trivia Question]

Margaret E. Knight’s paper grocery bags

https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/margaret-e-knight-and-charles-b-stilwell-flat-bottomed-paper-bag-1870s-1880s/

https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/11/03/in-the-bag/

https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/margaret-knight

https://www.invent.org/inductees/margaret-e-knight