Explorations: Heavenly Machine: Japanese Culture: Paper making

Duration: 20 mins 40 secs
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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.

A paper making factory in Japan where the traditional mulberry paper is still made. The various stages in the pulping, floating and using of paper are shown and some of the effects of the development of paper are discussed.
 
Created: 2018-03-10 16:45
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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