cotton-paper

Updated: August 18, 2026

We now come to the great period of writing-papers made from cotton and linen rags, as used at the present day, and which from the first were so perfect that they have since undergone no material improvement. Cotton-paper was an Eastern invention, probably introduced in the ninth century, although not generally used in Europe till about the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 : The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation