[DOC] [TLE] HISTORY OF WRITING MATERIALS [PAR] HISTORY OF WRITING MATERIALS including Inscribed in clay, The Egyptian 
papyrus, Bamboo books, Wax, leaves and wood, Pergamum and parchment, 
Paper, Paper's slow ... It becomes the writing material of the temple scribes. ... 
Chinese characters at this early period are written in vertical columns, so a thin 
strip of... [DOC] [TLE] Written on Bamboo and Silk: Chinese Preservation Techniques - NYU [PAR] Ancient Chinese civilizations employed many techniques to document ... only the 
question, but the answer or result was also recorded by official scribes. ... [2] 
Bronze was often chosen as a material because of its permanence for ... Not only 
was bamboo and wood used in everyday writing, but also in recording literary 
texts. [DOC] [TLE] Bamboo and wooden slips - Wikipedia [PAR] Bamboo and wooden slips were the main media for documents in China before 
the widespread ... Traditional Chinese,  ... The earliest surviving examples of 
wood or bamboo slips date from the 5th century BC during the Warring ... 
Bamboo or wooden strips were the standard writing material during the Han 
dynasty and... [DOC] [TLE] Pen - Wikipedia [PAR] A pen (Latin: penna, feather) is a writing implement used to apply ink to a surface, 
such as ... A ballpoint pen dispenses ink by rolling a small hard sphere, usually 
0.51.2 mm and ... A marker, or felt-tip pen, has a porous tip of fibrous material. ... 
Ancient Egyptians had developed writing on papyrus scrolls when scribes used... [DOC] [TLE] Records of the Grand Historian - Wikipedia [PAR] The Records of the Grand Historian (), now usually known as the Shj (
, "The Scribe's Records"), is a monumental history of ancient China ... His 
manuscript was written on bamboo slips with about 24 to 36 characters each, ... 
and are largely similar to records from the ancient Chinese court chronicle 
tradition,... [DOC] [TLE] Chinese Books Before the Invention of Paper. - OpenSIUC [PAR] "Since antiquity, written documents consisted mostly of bun- dles of bamboo ... 
The expression "bamboo and silk" meaning "writings," con- firms the ... silk 
material on which they wrote. ... of wooden tablets dififering wddely from the 
former both in form and use. ... A later commentator of ancient texts says that the 
fang was. [DOC] [TLE] Page 1 Page 2 ln ancient times writings and inscriptions were ... [PAR] paper, a writing material invented in China about two thousand years ago. 
Nevertheless, it was not the Chinese who exploited the potential of paper in this 
way, but ... tools to write on clay tablets, papyrus sheets, and bamboo strips. 
Vriters .... Students normally practiced on rectangular wooden writing boards 
coated with. [DOC] [TLE] Research Project [PAR] The earliest records of Chinese writing can be dated back to the Shang ... On the 
other hand, tortoises appeared only in the south, so tortoise shells were often 
presented ... In order to write on the bamboo or wood tablet, the scribe had to 
hold the ... aforementioned technologies led to the creation of a better writing 
material... [DOC] [TLE] The Origin of Chinese Book Printing presented in History section [PAR] Feb 28, 2003 ... Slip fascicles were books made of bamboo or wooden slips. ... The use of paper 
for writing is recorded in Chinese histories as early as 105 A.D. ... and low cost, it 
soon became the predominant material used for making books. ... of books, 
Chinese scribes still had to painstakingly transcribe books by hand. [DOC] [TLE] History of Paper - Peace Paper Project [PAR] Parchment is commonly in use starting from 1500 BC; however in 2nd Century ... 
Chinese scribes wrote on strips of wood and bamboo using a stylus until 3rd 
Century ... Woven cloth surfaces were easier to store and took to brush and ink. ... 
Earliest Papers in existence are from China and are made of Mulberry and Hemp
. [DOC] [TLE] Writing materials - Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe [PAR] Depending on the material, inscriptions were executed in inks, carved, or incised. 
... The bark of birch

Question: Early Chinese scribes usually wrote on wood, bamboo or this fabric
Answer: Silk