One reference work describes the technique used to make sheets of writing material from the stems of this plant as follows: “Stems, sometimes ten feet [3 m] long, were peeled and cut into narrow strips which in their turn were pasted to one another in layers, the grain in these layers going first one way and then the other; these sheets were then beaten with a wooden mallet and finally smoothed with a scraper. ”
ويصف احد المراجع طريقة صنع ورق البَرْدي قائلا :‏ « كانوا ينتزعون قشر الساق ،‏ التي يصل ارتفاعها الى ١٠ اقدام [٣ امتار] ،‏ ثم يقطعونها صفائح رقيقة ويضعون صفيحتين منها احداهما فوق الاخرى وضعا متخالفا ،‏ اي طولا في عرض .‏