Cellulose Fiber: Magic Ingredient in Paper Making that Spiralled Communication to Next Level

Shikha Saxena
5 min readOct 14, 2021

Use paper judiciously

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The first Papermaking process, a magical invention, was documented in China as about 2000 years ago in Eastern Han Period. A Chinese Court official Ts’ai Lun (Cai Lun) is considered as the inventor of First paper in Lei -Yang, China. Cellulose fiber the magic ingredient in papermaking that spiraled communication to next level is found to be common, in all historical materials used as paper in the past, as pulp, plants, cotton , cloths, rice, water plants, bamboo, wood, silk and so on.

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Ever thought about interesting invention paper, which was there and again in the news, because of the latest craze during pandemic. A commodity around which education and economy revolves!

Many materials were used before paper was invented. Here is a list of materials used all over globe in different regions for written communications.

Writing materials before Paper

For written communications people used signs and sketches to communicate information. In most of them one magic ingredient is common and…

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Shikha Saxena

A Technical Writer, an artist and blogger by choice. Passionate about reading , writing and editing, NY.http://www.shikhasaxena.com and https://www.dnabox.co/