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A variation on the Ogden Nash poem has it that  –Candy is dandy, and rice is nice, but liqueur is quicker. To my knowledge no one has ever made paper out of candy, and I can think of better things to do with a good single malt than make pictures with it. But rice is another matter.
In Japan and other parts of Asia there is a long history of wood block printing and calligraphy using rice paper. My research shows that rice paper is not actually made from rice. It is in fact made from the pith of the rice paper plant,Tetrapanax papyriferus. That bit of arcana aside, rice paper has a unique look and feel that is much appreciated by non-photographic print makers. It is traditionally quite thin and delicate and up till now no one that I'm aware of has produced a rice paper coated for photographic inkjet printing.
I have also been told that the bark of the mulberry tree is used for the manufacture of what we call "rice paper". Either way, I have no idea what Hahnem...

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