Dictionary

rag paper en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Paper made from the pulp of rags.
   • Four hundred years ago, paper was made from rags (or, technically, the cloth fibers that make up rags). Rag paper sounds like something cheap, but in fact, it’s quite the opposite. In comparison to what we use today, rag paper was downright luscious, often thick and soft to the touch. This is one of the main reasons so many early printed books are missing blank leaves: owners would cut them out to use them for other purposes. A perfectly good piece of expensive paper, just sitting there not being used? What a waste! 2017, J.P. Romney, Rebecca Romney, Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories of Books History, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 6:

Forms

Coordinates

linen paper

Hypernyms

paper

Relateds

rag and bone man · ragpicker

Translations (3)

ga páipéar ceirteacha (paper made from the pulp of rags) · pl papier ze zużytego włókna (paper made from the pulp of rags) · sv lumppapper (paper made from the pulp of rags)