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- The original, raw edge of a sheet of paper formed where the pulp is deposited unevenly against the pieces of wood around the edges of the support that serve to hold the pulp over the mold screen during sheet formation.
- # In Western papers, this is called a deckle edge since the frame of wood around the paper mold is the deckle. However, in Islamic papermaking the correlate to this frame is comprised of four pieces of wood which are not joined to each other and, consequently, are not a deckle. The top and bottom pieces of wood are fixed to the mold support, but the two side pieces used to clamp the mold screen to the underlying support are held in place by the papermaker. They are removed when the screen is taken off the mold support in order to couch the sheet of paper.
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AUTHORS: PAUL HEPWORTH AND KARIN SCHEPER