Rags Make Paper (A Poem about Paper)

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Back in day (well, in eighteenth century Europe) your average piece of paper was made from cloth rags, not trees. A growing printing industry gave rise to an increased demand for paper, and thus, obtaining rags was crucial for the making of money, newspapers, broadsides, and books, to name a few items.Penned by an anonymous author in the 1700s, this proverb gives us a glimpse of this historical rag-waste industry. Also the the frontispiece of Papermaking: The History and Technique of An Ancient Craft by Dard Hunter, please enjoy this ode to the cyclical nature of paper!Free to share, pin, tweet and more. Just attribute and link this graphic back to paperslurry.com and we’ll be good!