Day 1
21 participants (from 11 countries) began preparing the kozo fiber by stripping the bark layers to get the good papermaking fibers .... then washed and cooked.
三部曲 :撥皮,清洗, 水煮
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Using a knife, we peeled/stripped the green and brown layers from the white one. We would only work with the white layer, the other two were kept for other usage.
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Finished stripping the kozo black barks.
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Then washed and cooked the barks in boiling water with soda carbonate/ash to remove the lignin. Lignin is the material that causes paper to get a yellow tint when exposed to oxygen over time.
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