Re: paper query

[George Kovalenko <ae484@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca>]

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Gene G. Freeman wrote,

> The date and the paper don't match, so it must be a much later facsimile
> reprint. Bankers linen is machine paper where the linen pattern is applied
> by linen wrapped rollers as the last step in the process. It does not imply
> a linen content and the browning usually means too much acid in wood pulp
> paper.

Actually, the "browning" is the result of the lignin in wood pulp
discoloring over time.  The high acidity of a paper results in a brittle
paper that is extremely prone to breaking and fragmentation, hence all
those little triangular chunks of paper on library shelves and floors that
all of us are all too familiar with.

George.