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Sizing Techniques in Papermaking

The document discusses the history and methods of sizing in papermaking, highlighting the transition from acidic sizing with rosin to starch and gelatine. It emphasizes the importance of sizing for improving paper quality while noting the challenges it poses for the preservation of printed documents. Additionally, it mentions advancements in mechanized sizing machines and the desizing process for woven fabrics.

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Sizing Techniques in Papermaking

The document discusses the history and methods of sizing in papermaking, highlighting the transition from acidic sizing with rosin to starch and gelatine. It emphasizes the importance of sizing for improving paper quality while noting the challenges it poses for the preservation of printed documents. Additionally, it mentions advancements in mechanized sizing machines and the desizing process for woven fabrics.

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Sizing Part-4

Preserva on

While sizing is intended to make paper more suitable for prin ng, acidic sizing using rosin
also makes prin ng paper less durable and poses a problem for preserva on of printed
documents.

Sizing with starch was introduced quite early in the history of papermaking.[2] Dard Hunter
in Papermaking through Eighteen Centuries[3] corroborates this by wri ng, "The Chinese
used starch as a size for paper as early as A.D. 768 and its use con nued un l the fourteenth
century when animal glue was subs tuted."[3] In the early modern paper mills in Europe,
which produced paper for prin ng and other uses, the sizing agent of choice was gela n, as
Susan Swartzburg writes in Preserving Library Materials': "Various substances have been
used for sizing through the ages, from gypsum to animal gela n."[4] Hunter describes the
process of sizing in these paper mills in the following:

The drying completed, the old papermakers dipped their paper into an animal size that had
been made from the parings of hides, which they procured from the parchment-makers. It
was necessary to size that paper so that it would be impervious to ink, but sizing was more
needed in wri ng than in prin ng papers. Many books of the fi eenth century were printed
upon paper that had not been sized, this extra treatment not being essen al for a type
impression. The sizing was accomplished by a worker holding a number of sheets by the aid
of two wooden s cks, and dipping the paper into the warm gela nous liquid. The sheets
were then pressed to extract the superfluous gela ne. This crude method of sizing the paper
was extremely wasteful as many sheets were torn and bruised beyond use. The sizing room
of the early paper mills, was, for this reason, known as the 'slaughter-house'.[3]

 Benefits:

Besides reducing breakage, sizing also reduces hairiness and improves the overall quality of
the woven fabric.

 Desizing:

A er weaving, water-soluble sizes can be removed through a desizing process, o en


involving washing the fabric in hot water with we ng agents and mild alkali.

 Sizing machines:
Mechanized sizing machines have improved the process by applying size to the warp before
it's placed on the loom.

recipe. • Start the s rrer of the storage vessel and then transfer the cooked size paste to the
respec ve storage [Link] ner (2 to -3 %) to be added in storage tank post paste
forma on • Maintain storage temperature at around 80-90° C. • Paste is ready to transfer to
the sow box of sizing machine.

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