Some Known and Some Approximate Dates:
| 3000 (at least) | Egyptians cultivate Papyrus and produce scrolls | In use until the 11th c. AD |
| 300 | Use of Animal Skins, Parchment, Vellum | Pergamon was a big parchment center and lent its name. Animal skins probably used much, much earlier. |
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| 105 (possibly 100 to 200 years earlier) | Chinese Invent Paper (bamboo, mulberry, and hemp) | Paper and papermaking know-how travel the Silk Routes |
| 610 | Paper made in Japan | |
| 751 | Samarkand becomes paper making center. Paper made from mulberry plants | |
| 793 | Paper made in Baghdad (made from hemp ropes) | |
| 900 | Paper made in Egypt and apparently recycled linen wraps of mummies | |
| 1150 | Moors introduce paper to Spain | |
| 1200 – 1300 | Paper Made in Italy (linen and hemp rags) | Introduce watermarks and animal skin size |
| 1690 | Hollander Machine Invented in Holland | Speeds up paper making process. Cotton easily beaten with hollander. |
| 1757 | Wove Paper invented by James Whatman in England | Mesh wire cloth produces a paper without visible laid and chain lines. |
| 1844 | Groundwood Pulp Process patented in Germany | |
| 1870 | Great expansion of wood paper mills |