Paper Grain in Origami - Origami by Michał Kosmulski
Paper is made from plant fibers. When hand-made paper is laid using a sieve, a single sheet is produced at a time. Manual movements of the sieve cause the fibers to become arranged in a roughly uniform manner in all directions. In contrast, machine-made paper is produced as a long, continuous band which moves on a kind of assembly line between different productions stages. This causes the fibers to prefer an arrangement parallel to the movement, resulting in paper grain, also called machine direction: the paper’s properties differ between the machine direction (MD) and the perpendicular direction (sometimes called cross direction, CD). One can also say the paper is anisotropic.
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Paper Grain in Origami - Origami by Michał Kosmulski
Paper is made from plant fibers. When hand-made paper is laid using a sieve, a single sheet is produced at a time. Manual movements of the sieve cause the fibers to become arranged in a roughly uniform manner in all directions. In contrast, machine-made paper is produced as a long, continuous band which moves on a kind of assembly line between different productions stages. This causes the fibers to prefer an arrangement parallel to the movement, resulting in paper grain, also called machine direction: the paper’s properties differ between the machine direction (MD) and the perpendicular direction (sometimes called cross direction, CD). One can also say the paper is anisotropic.
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