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[Mike Watterson]

Art paper, or quality paper is rag based. Made from natural fibre cloth, traditionally cotton, hemp and linen as well as other plants.
The pulp comics or pulp fiction in the USA was made from the cheapest wood pulp and the print would thus not be very sharp and the paper rapidly yellow. Mass print run paperback books are often wood pulp, unless produced by POD (which uses a much higher quality whiter paper).

Check old book books you have. All the wood pulp paper will be yellow with less sharp type. Paper can be a mix of wood and other plant based types. Fake hardbacks (not groups of stitched pages) often use wood pulp.

Other paper are composite and may have surface treatments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_paper

There are many kinds of paper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper#Type...and_weight

Papyrus material for writing on isn't paper.
Real parchment isn't paper, it's animal skin. Vellum is simply high quality parchment, often calf skin. There are papers that are called "parchment" or "vellum".

[DrStrangelove]

I remember the paperback McGraw Hill Field Theory book from the 1970s that must have been made from tree bark since it went yellow so fast.

Quite unlike the Terman books from the 30s, 40s, and 50s which are still white to this very day.

I don't think I ever read the Field Theory book.

About the only useful thing was the Smith chart.

I donated it to Oxfam about 5 years ago, I bet they were grateful. :D

[Mike Watterson]

Birch tree bark is a thing and not too bad (historically for sheets, not books). Likely it was cheap pine wood pulp. Most barks are unsuitable

[ppppenguin]

Ruth and I are going to the exhibition tomorrow.

If you're going by car (as we are) remember that traffic management and parking in Oxford is truly horrible. Best bet is to use one of the park and ride facilities but we've also got to collect some kit from central Oxford. We'll have to approach from the correct direction, perch on double yellows while loading and then clear off the way we came in. I'll probably leave the car in a side street that I know that's near a bus stop.

[PerdioPal]

I forgot about rag paper etc. seems very smooth. I have some books from the '40s they were made of straw paper (so it says) sometime you can see a brown lump in the paper, very thin too.

[DrStrangelove]

I have a copy of the BBC 100 years of Broadcasting: nice paper, printed in China.

Cost someone £25, cost me £2 in a charity emporium.

[ppppenguin]

We went to Oxford today. The exhibition is small but good. You wouldn't want to make a special journey for this alone. We also went to the Museum of the History of Science which is just across the road. They have the famous microphone used by Dame Nellie Melba to broadcast from 2MT Writtle. Rather nice photo in a nearby bookshop window of a fox with headphones alongside the book. Reflection of the Sheldonian in the background.

We parked in Church Cowley Road (OK at the weekend) and were surprised to see a blue plaque for Ronnie Barker. We went to the Museum of Oxford where they have a nice exhibition about him.

I saw a couple of Band 1 & 3 aerials too. Presumably aimed at Crystal Palace/Croydon.

[PerdioPal]

"I saw a couple of Band 1 & 3 aerials too" and a band 2 one as well, near enough the right direction for Wrotham as well from Oxford.