Wove paper
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Wove paper is a writing paper
Writing paper
Printing and writing papers are paper grades used for newspapers, magazines, catalogs, books, commercial printing, business forms, stationeries, copying and digital printing. About 1/3 of the total pulp and paper marked is printing and writing papers....

 with a uniform surface
Surface
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, not ribbed or watermarked.
The papermaking mould's wires run parallel to each other to produce laid paper, but they are woven together into a fine wire mesh for wove paper. The originator of this new papermaking technique was James Whatman (1702-59) from Kent, England.

For 500 years European paper makers could only produce what came to be called laid paper
Laid paper
Laid paper is a type of paper having a ribbed texture imparted by the manufacturing process. In the 19th century its use diminished as it was largely supplanted by wove paper...

. In 1757 John Baskerville printed his famous edition of Virgil
Virgil
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 on a new kind of paper, called Wove (known in Europe as Vélin). This paper is now known to have been made by the elder James Whatman
James Whatman (papermaker)
James Whatman , the Elder, was a paper maker, born in Kent, who made revolutionary advances to the craft in England. He is noted as the inventor of wove paper , an innovation used for high quality art and printing...

. Twenty-five years later (1780s) the manufacture of wove paper spread quickly to other paper mills in England, and was also being developed in France and America. All this took place over a decade before a machine to replace making paper by hand was conceived. With the establishment of the paper machine (1807), the manufacture of paper on a wove wire base never looked back. Today more than 99% of the world's paper is made in this way.

Whatman paper

Whatman paper is a type of wove paper named after James Whatman. It is notable for its exceptional quality.
Whatman paper is grained, strong and rigid, without laid lines. It is used in publishing, filtering, and chromatography.
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