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The first historical mention of paper is 104 A.D. in China. The Empress of China at that quantify loved books and wanted to wee a lot of them made. At the time e genuinelything was written on silk scrolls which were extremely costly and time consuming to make. She wanted something cheaper and easier to implement and so she asked adept of her servants, a gentleman by the name of Tsi Lun to come up with an alternative. He worked for oer nine years experimenting with different things and finally came up with hemp, mulberry shoetree bark, silk and old fishing nets all ground up into a kitschy pulp. I wonder how he ever thought of it the hi write up books dont say. The Empress was very pleased and Tsi Lun was elevated to a high rank in the court. unfortunately for him, the Empress then asked Tsi Lun to spread malicious gossip about some of her enemies at court. When the Empress fell out of power, those people were extremely angry with Tsi Lun and he was both put to death or forc ed to commit suicide.Strange, isnt it, how things go in the world? And, of course, all of this that I am sharing with you is just one version of history. Others will perhaps be able to give a different rendering. I have read many. I like the story of Tsi Lun. Most people agree on that one. But, as for the spread of paper make as an dodge, well, there are different stories told. To gather such accounts and compare them waterfall within the discipline of "Historiography", the history of the writing of history. (If you ever want to scamble your brains and large-minded all concept of the solidity of reality, just study the hisotry writing of history.) The following, I believe, is most likely closest to the truth.Papem do remained a secret Chinese art until near the year 700 A.D. when, during a war with China the Arab nations captured an entire township of papermakers and took them back to the middle east as prisoners where they were forced into labor making paper. The craft was learned a couple hundred years by and by by Westem Europeans during the Crusades. Curiously, the Church in Westem Europe initially banned the use of paper calling it a pagan art believing that animal parchment was the provided thing holy enough to carry the Sacred Word. That strange prejudice lasted for more(prenominal) than 100 years, but they got over it.In the seventeenth century Europeans were making paper from cotton and linen paper rags. When paper is made ... ...which does not cast up to the pollution in the environment. Natural fiber paper makers have told me that they compensate their caustic solutions with vinegar and baking soda. After the cooking process, once it is change and checked with a litmus strip, the fiber cooking water passel be disposed of down the drain without any fear of adding to the venomous waste in the environment, so there is hope.)The sad tale of our time period for the health of the eco system is that just as cotton and linen rags as sou rces for paper making were becoming scarce in the 17th century, trees in the 21st are also dissappearing. As an example, one oneness edition of the Sunday brisk York Times requires 30,000 acres of trees. And thats just the New York Times. What about the London Times? L.A. Times? And the millions of other papers printed around the world? Experiments have begun to find alternative sources of fiber and I have recently heard the European mills are turning toward hemp. hemp yields 4 times the amount of cellulose fiber per acre than trees and is renewable within a year or two compared to 100 years for trees. As a lover of trees, I hope the rest of the world soon follows the European example.