Excerpt from The Art of Making Paper: Pa-P-Yor Tures, nevertheless, may be readily grasped. It seems to be well established now that the raw material was the pith of the plant and not the bast or thin membranes as formerly was assumed, investigation having shown that the papyrus, like other reeds, con tains within the rind only a cellular pith. This pith was split into thin strips with some sharp instrument, Pliny says with a needle; but this could hardly have been the case. At any rate, how. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.