[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971) › c19.s1.2 # Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c19.s1.2 Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c19.s1.2 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c19.s1.2) The manufacturer purchases old ropes, cloths, and nets, made from the \*son\* plant, and cuts them into small pieces, macerates them in water, for a few days, generally five, washes them in the river in a basket, and throws them into a jar of water lodged in the ground; the water is strongly impregnated with a lixivium of \*sedgimutti\*² six parts and quick lime seven parts. After remaining in this state eight or ten days, they are again washed, and while wet, broken into fibres, by the stamping lever, \*Fig 1\*. \[Diagram I\], and then exposed to the sun, upon a clean terrace, built for this purpose; after which, they are again steeped, in a fresh lixivium, as before. When they have undergone three operations of this kind, they are fit for making coarse brown paper; after seven or eight operations, they are prepared for making paper, of a tolerable whiteness. - [Previous: c19.s1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c19.s1.1) - [Next: c19.s1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c19.s1.3) - [Up: c19.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c19.s1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c19.s1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.dharampal-1971.c19.s1.2) · Pramāṇa