Paper & its Origins
For my book of contextual research into paper cutting, I think it would be interesting to also cover the origins of paper and some history about paper and the use of it within different cultures. I think an appropriate place to start would be with the invention of the first type of paper like material - Papyrus.
Egyptian Papyrus
"Papyrus was first manufactured in Egypt as far back as the third millennium BC. In the first centuries BC and AD, papyrus scrolls gained a rival as a writing surface in the form of parchment, which was prepared from animal skins. Sheets of parchment were folded to form quires from which book-form codices were fashioned. Early Christian writers soon adopted the codex form, and in the Græco-Roman world it became common to cut sheets from papyrus rolls to form codices"
