Um, Is Rice Paper Really Absorbent?

Wood or tablets were used basically everywhere writing was used as far as I'm able to tell china, rome, meso america All of those places had wood as an opportunity to use Depending on where you are wood might be too valuable and it's a little um clumsy. Another material used sort of marginally in some places is birch bark Used in india used in russia interestingly. And then we get to the biggie paper which is about yeah New linear old Chinese came up with it. It usually gets called rice paper, but it was made from a bunch of different kinds of things Rice straw, all berry, hemp, bambooAll sort of this stuff would be poked