Before making rice paper, you have to go through a process of making leather and a process of making forage. Among them, leather production mainly refers to the processing of papermaking raw materials such as sandalwood fiber, including more than 30 tedious small processes such as peeling, stepping on the skin, spreading and drying into burnt skin, whipping and washing the skin, bleaching into sandalwood fiber and so on. The production process of forage grass is mainly to process straw fibers such as straw, including about 20 small processes such as grass selection, grass cutting, grass tamping, repeated cooking, sun exposure, etc., until it is finally bleached into straw fibers.
3. After these two processes are completed, the ingredients for making rice paper can be made, that is, the fiber materials of sandalwood bark and grass are mixed in a certain proportion. Different types of paper products are needed, and the proportion of paper products prepared will be different. The prepared materials need to be screened, beaten and washed, and finally made into mixed slurry. This mixed pulp is mixed with proper amount of water, then mixed with glue added with kiwi vine juice, and then fished out, squeezed and baked. Through the whole process, the quality and inking effect of the paper have been basically determined and become the base paper of Xuan paper. However, as a commodity, Xuan paper is not enough. The standard requirements for finished rice paper products are also very high. It not only requires the paper to be soft, flat and smooth, with a faint bamboo curtain, but also requires the trim to be neat and clean, and there can be no wrinkles, holes, sand particles and attachments on the paper. Therefore, it is necessary to identify and select the formed papers one by one, then cut off the raw edges of the selected papers, and add printing, alum, polishing and packaging. In order to become a world-renowned rice paper.