(This page published September 1, 2004)
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| rag content | The amount of rag fibers in a sheet of paper, assuming the paper has any rag content at all. Few papers are made from rags these days, but the term has been used synonymously for cotton, even though that cotton had never seen life as a fabric. |
| rag paper | The earliest papers were made from old rags (fabric). Even today the highest quality papers are made, if not from rags, at least from linters. See also cotton linters. |
| recycled paper | This is used paper that is cooked in chemicals to remove the ink and return it to pulp for the making of new paper. It is generally of an inferior quality, but it is also less expensive and preserves our natural resource of trees. See also Blue Angel, downcycling. |
| rice paper | First of all, it is not made from rice. It is a thin paper, if one could call this paper at all, made in Asia by slicing the pith of certain plants and pressing them. However, rice starch is used to size papers such as gampi, kozo, and mitsumata. |
| rough | This is a heavily textured surface on paper. |
| royal | A type of writing paper 19" × 24". |
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