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The Papier Mache (the literally "chewed paper ") - due to numerous uses gained the popularity worldwide. Made from it decorative profiles, moulds, furniture, people′s folk artists created coloured products.

The paper was invented in China in II of the age AD, and more or less at that time one began to use the papier mache as the good manner on renewed material utilization which was then expensive and difficult of access.The paper mache was conspicuous with the very profitable relation of the endurance to the mass, and after varnishing served to Chineses among other things construable helmets. The technique the Paper Mache reached over time to Samarkand and Morocco, from where spread further . In X of the age one knew already her in Spain, Germany, in France, Italy, in Persia and India.