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InviteSite.comLike wine, paper is judged through sensory experience. A paper's quality is discovered by its "rattle" (shaking it creates a qualifying sound), its translucence (hold to light to discover watermarks, fiber dispersion, a papermaker's tear) its "hand" (surface textures and fiber qualities) its weight and its smell. Breathe on the corner of a sheet to find the paper's grain. Your breath slightly hydrates the fibers and they will bend with the added weight.
Individually, beautiful handmade paper speaks for itself. Collectively, papermaking is a technology that stretches back 2000 years and carries upon it the entire advancement of civilization.
"The spoken word passes away, the written word remains."
- taken from Caxton's Mirrour of the World, printed 1481
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