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Max Terpstra

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1 - Historical piece - Paper

The craft of paper making is an ancient craft that originated in China around 105 BC. The craft is based on turning water and natural products (consisting of wood scraps, rice, fibres and more), into a mixture that is called ‘pulp’. In the earliest way of papermaking the products would be beaten down with sticks to make it easier to combine with water, but later on mixers would take over this job. This pulp is then combined with water in a tub of water and using a deckle frame to form the sheets of pulp. After this process the sheets would be pressed to remove all water and dried, and used for many purposes.

So how would this be fusing? Well there is a critical part in the process that features fusing to make paper form and hold its form. That part is where the pulp is created. Combining raw materials, most likely other sorts of paper or natural products, with water turns it into a soft sloppy material used for papermaking, or known as pulp. On a fusing level this would be defined as: combining two or more entities to create a new whole. So because you need to combine water and these materials, it is seen, in my perspective, as fusing.

What impact this form of fusing made. It became possible to not only write on this material, it would also get rid of the older and less practical mediums ideas and notes could be written on. The creation of paper is an enormous invention, and the result of that is still here today.