Molen "De Schoolmeester" in de Zaanse Schans, Noordholland
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Mill paper can be quite thin, up to cardboard-thick. Its color depends on the rags, used to make it. With jeans it turns blue. Usually it is cream-colored, but it can be white, brown or pink. One kind has not been made of rags, but of moss. New it is green, older it turns a color of ripe grain.
"Mill paper" is handmade paper from the mill "De Schoolmeester" in De Zaanse Schans. On the page of www.zaanseschans.nl it is the mill in the distance, at left on the first picture. See www.zaansemolen.nl for more information (Dutch, but with pictures)
Mill "De
Schoolmeester" (The Schoolteacher)
"The mill “De Schoolmeester” (The School-teacher) in former times also nicknamed
as “De Gauwdief” (quick-thief), is dated from 1692. It is a hexagonal
bovenkruier (windmill of which only the cap is movable) with scaffolding.
Together with the nearby situated mill “Het Prinsenhof”, “De Schoolmeester”
defines the image of Westzaan, seen from the east-side, an image that fades more
and more by the way because of the growing development.
Remarkable is the very large barn for drying the paper. A part of the going
works of the paper-mill must come from the pulled down paper-mill “Het Springend
Hert” (The Jumping Deer) in the Frisian Makkum. “De Schoolmeester”, since 1976
owned by “De Zaansche Molen”, is the only existing and working wind-paper-mill
in the world.The love of the former owners, fam. De Jong, saved this unique mill
from the demolishing-hammer in the past"
http://www.zaaninfo.com/english/zaansemills.htm
