The director of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Museo_del_papiro_a_Siracusa" class="mw-redirect" title="Museo del papiro a Siracusa">Papyrus museum in Syracuse</a>, Italy, personally demonstrates the method used in ancient times to create papyrus paper (the name "paper" itself comes from "papyrus"). In the set of images it is shown how the young papyrus trunk is cut into stripes, which will stick together thanks to the sticky nature of the pulp. One parallel layer of strips is created, then a second one, perpendicular above the first one. A stone roll or a press squeezes the paper, which is then dried. The last three images show the result, in which are evident the perpendicular orientation of the naturally occurring strips between the "recto" and the "verso" of the sheet. Picture by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:G.dallorto" title="User:G.dallorto">Giovanni Dall'Orto</a>, March 19, 2014.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:G.dallorto" title="User:G.dallorto">Giovanni Dall'Orto</a>
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<span class="int-own-work">Self-photographed</span>