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What is Rag?
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Rag refers to cotton rag.  That is, papers made from cotton fibres.

The term is historical - originally cotton rag papers were made from waste cotton generated from the fashion ('rag') industry.

These days most papers are made from plantation cotton, but the term lingers on.
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