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Samarkand paper
Description According to historical data, production of paper in Samarkand started since Chinese prisoners betrayed the secret of paper making in order to save their lives, namely from the second half of the eighth century. In the ninth century it became a separate branch of city craftsmanship.nFrom the eighth until the nineteenth centuries, for more than thousand years Samarkand paper was famous in Middle Asia and Near East and in many cities of Europe. Samarkand craftsmen, who had rised their work to the artistic level in the past, have created the thinnest, smoothest and most ink resistant paper types in the world.
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