Make Some Paper!

by Brandon Marie Miller Cave walls. Clay tablets. Stone. Bone. Papyrus. Vellum (animal skin). For thousands of years people etched drawings and painted writings onto these materials. Then, about 2,000 years ago, a Chinese court official named Ts'ai made the first paper.

The process mashed tree bark, hemp, shredded rags, and water into a pulp. The liquid was pressed out, and what was left behind