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Five woodcuts depicting the five seminal steps in ancient Chinese papermaking. From the 1637 Tiangong Kaiwu of the Ming dynasty

Date

1637

Source

香港臨時市政局 [Provisional Urban Council]; 中國歷史博物館聯合主辦 [Hong Kong Museum of History] (1998) "Zàozhǐ" in (in zh, en) Tian gong kai wu: Zhongguo gu dai ke ji wen wu zhan, Hong Kong: 香港歷史博物館 [Hong Kong Museum of History], pp. 54–71 ISBN: 978-962-7039-37-2. OCLC: 41895821.
Originally uploaded by 豐 in Chinese Wikipedia.。

Author

Unknown pre-modern painter of the 1637 Tiangong Kaiwu of the Ming dynasty.

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