Well, it wasn't just rags and other cloths. From a quick bit of research, I would guess those were mostly used as extra binding for the various plant materials that would also go into the paper. That said, yeah, wood pulp wasn't used until they started really needing to mass produce it and that worked well because of the sheer amount of material they could get from it thanks to new methods.The process of making paper out of wood only developed during industrialization, primary source for fiber before that was textiles and rags...
yeah they existed and were deleted at some point cause their chapter discussion threads still exit idk why thoughAlso... am i tripping ? i remember reading chapter 51-54 but now they're gone ?