India paper
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India paper is a term for a paper which from 1875 has been based on bleached hemp and rag fibres, that produced a very thin, opaque white paper. It has a basis weight of 20 pounds, yet bulks 1,000 pages to the inch.
It became popular in particular for the printing of Bibles, which could be made relatively small and light while remaining legible. The process was used particularly by the Oxford University Press and its paper suppliers. The name arose because the paper imitated fine papers imported from India and ultimately from China.
