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The entire process to produce one sheet of paper actually takes three days. The dipping and swishing is just part of it. The process begins with pulling bark off the trees, and soaking strips of bark in water for 24 hours. The bark is then boiled and washed, and further cleaned, separating good, fine fibers from bad fibers. The fibers are crushed and pounded by a machine into a wood pulp, and then mixed by hand in a vat, with water and a vegetable starch made from the Hibiscus plant root. A wooden frame with a bamboo screen filter, approximately two feet by three feet in size, is dipped into the vat of the pulp and starch mixture, and is swished around to allow a thin layer of the mixture to spread out evenly over the screen. Carefully the screen, now covered with a thin layer of the mixtu
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