HISTORY OF THE PAPERS TO SMOKE

The most famous type of paper to smoke, “the rice facts”, date its history in China enter years 618 - 907 B.C. Done of rice straw, were called XUAN to paper, known in the world as rice paper.
Until those manufactured in other countries they had taken name the same. At that time this paper was manufactured for painting of pictures, but the painters preferred the SILK (silk). This if kept thus until the used inks in pictures reached its maturity.

Then, the painters had recognized that the rice paper was better and more durable than the Silk. The commercial age of the rice paper has beginning in 1851 with some mills that produced it, now, to not only paint, but also to write and to print.

This phase was disovida by civil wars. Resurge for return of 1921 and in 1937 already existed 44 plants of this type of paper. With the disasters of World War II, in 1949, already an open plant did not exist at least.

Some years after, it is retaken approximately industry with 30 small plants. Now in 2006, it revolutionizes the skill again to smoke, with the transparent paper of GLASS.