Somehow, they stumbled upon papermaking ... Discovery, and Invention. Simon and Schuster, New York. 1986). Information given here is from Temple's book. This activity is an informative way to ...

a group of Chinese workmen set up a papermaking establishment in Samarkand. Their product quickly spread by trade and imitation, and paper soon supplanted other writing materials in most of western ...

Williams Museum of Papermaking]. Exactly what Cai wrote ... mobile barricades as well as for transportation — the Chinese kept their invention secret for centuries. An old folktale also gives ...

Following this, a papermaking industry began in Samarkand ... there are other important Chinese inventions like silk and porcelain that have also had an enormous influence on daily life.