What is the fourth process of making rice paper?

The fourth process of Xuan paper production is fishing paper, fishing paper paper thickness uniformity depends on experience, the weight of each sheet of Xuan paper need to be controlled within the standard plus or minus one gram.

Xuan paper production process is extremely complex, roughly divided, can be divided into the selection of materials, pulping, paper, sun paper, inspection and paper-cutting and other six processes, are handmade. And one of the paper, sun paper and paper-cutting 3 process, it is almost decided a paper quality is good or bad.

The pulp is salvaged from the paper to become a paper post, and there are about 500 sheets of rice paper in each post. The master of the sunshine paper from the wet rice paper one by one from the paper post, and then use the natural pine needle brush will be a sheet of thin as cicada wings of rice paper brush in the high temperature of the lime baking surface for drying, is for the sunshine paper.

Xuan paper production process

Xuan paper production, the elm family deciduous tree green sandalwood bark and selected paddy straw as raw materials, and will be made into leather pulp and grass pulp, and then mixed in different proportions, added into the kiwi vine juice made of paper medicine, copying out of different varieties of Xuan paper.

The whole production process has more than a hundred procedures, and to master this complex set of skills, not only need to rely on the inheritance between master and disciple, but also rely on the producer's own long-term practice and realization.

Before the production of Xuan paper, it has to go through a leather production process and a grass production process. The leather production mainly refers to the sandalwood fibers and other paper raw materials processing. Grass production process is mainly on rice straw and other grass fiber processing, which contains about twenty small processes, such as selecting grass, cut grass, pounding grass, repeatedly cooking and sunlight until the final bleaching into grass fiber material.

After the completion of these two processes, the ingredients for the production of rice paper can be made, that is, sandalwood fiber material and grass fiber material according to a certain proportion of the mixture. Different categories of paper products required, the proportion of the preparation will also be different, with a good material needs to be screened, beating, washing, etc., and finally made into a mixed pulp.