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Paper industry
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The paper industry deals with the creation and processing of paper sheets, and further processing into quires and scrolls.
Raw material
There are three kinds of raw material that can be processed into paper sheets:
Processing
Papyrus can be directly made into papyrus sheets at a farmer's workshop. Cloth plants are milled to slurry in a mill, then pressed to sheet in a screw press. Processing animal hides is more complex; you need to produce quicklime from calcium carbonate stones at a kiln, then process the quicklime to milk of lime at an ashery. Finally, the hide and and milk of lime are used in a tanner's shop to create a parchment sheet. If the hide is from a cow, it's called "vellum sheet", otherwise it will take on the name of the animal (i.e. pig parchment sheet, sheep parchment sheet).
Finished goods
The sheets are then used to make quires or scrolls (with rollers). Quires can be bound into codices.
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