Tissue Paper Manufacture
Tissue Paper Manufacture The base fibers of paper were made of textile rags rendered to a pulp. Between 1750 and 1800 the replacement of wooden stampers by Hollander beaters created a finer and smoother pulp which resulted in finer and smoother paper. In 1797 William Adams built a paper mill at Cheddleton in Staffordshire to produce tissue paper for his own and the other potteries. Tissue paper was at this time sometimes referred to as silk paper or silver paper.
‘We have the means of comparing the earthenware made now with the hand-made paper and with the present paper, and the superiority is extraordinary; doubtless there are improvements made in engraving and the coloring, but still the uneven surface which seems to me to exist in the old paper, with little dots or knots upon the surface of the The Fourdrinier machine for making continuous paper made possible development of cylinder printing on to tissue paper in the 1830s. In 1895 Brittain’s Duplex paper was introduced. It consisted of a fine tissue mounted on a strong backing paper. This enabled tissue to withstand the rigors of a lithographic press without tearing, and made lithographic printing on to ceramics on a large scale commercially viable.
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Fourdrinier paper making machine c.1830 |