Vietnamese Papyrus

Dương Ô

The production of this paper requires a meticulous preparation. It is manufactured with the bark of the tree do. After the harvest of this one between the  8th and 10th lunar months, one needs to immerse it in water during one or two days. After one  treats it by macerating it in a lime solution  condensed during 5 hours. Then one makes it boil during about twenty hours before crushing it during 5 hours. The flour obtained by crushing is diluted in a basin filled with a mixture of water and resin of the plant mò  (clerodendron). Paper is obtained thanks to a mould after being pressed and being dried.

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Those are often proposed in the kiosks reserved to the foreign tourists. Paper do (rhamnomeuron paper) is used in the printing of these imageries.  According to certain Vietnamese researchers, this paper had appeared around the 3rd century and knew its apogee from the 8th to the 14th century. Hồ Qúi Ly made use of it at the end of the 14th century for the printing of the fiduciary currencies. The production of this paper requires a meticulous preparation.