Paper
Part of the Traveling the Silk Road exhibition.
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Part of the Traveling the Silk Road exhibition.
Samarkand was famous throughout the Islamic world for its especially fine paper.
Paper is made from plant material or cloth that is mashed to a pulp and then formed into a sheet. These Chinese drawings from the early 1600s show how to make paper from bamboo.