The Paper Mill
Where sheets are formed
In his book ‘European Hand Papermaking’, Timothy Barrett is quite clear: “The term “papermill” is reserved for large scale enterprises running at least one vat team of three people on a daily basis”. By Barrett’s definition, my ‘paper mill’ is a ‘personal paperworks’, maybe it’s no more that a paper nerd’s man-cave.
There are moulds
Fibres are beaten
Sheets are pulled
Paper is pressed
Wet sheets are restraint dried in a dryer box
Sheets are tub sized and loft dried
sheets can be calendered to finish
I think it’s a paper mill