The
ruling is a grid printed on a sheet of paper to allow the regularity of
writing.
In
the old manuscripts, the ruling refers to all the lines drawn on the sheet to
facilitate writing. These lines were erased after copying the text. On the
precious ancient manuscripts, the ruling was made with the dry point (or, more
rarely with the mine, which made it possible not to disturb the illuminator
with the hollow left by the dry point). These manuscripts often also contain
lines of stitches in the paper (binding side and sometimes slice side) that
served to guide the ruling.
Why Is It Called “College
Ruled”?
It seems perplexing how lined
papers (we have a whole host of lined paper templates available for you to download and modify) is also called
as college ruled. Are college ruled papers similar to any kind of
lined paper? Tapping in to the historical context of lined paper, a paper
has horizontal lines with even spaces in between.
Papers first had lines that
were wide ruled measuring up to 8.7 mm. Medium ruled paper measuring 7.1 mm was
then created, which is now the modern college ruled paper. Wide ruled
are used by children in kindergarten and elementary. By the time students
reach high school and college, they start using college ruled paper.
Different Paper Prints and Its
Uses
A lot of people may know about
paper size and thickness, but only a few has the knowledge about the types of
paper prints. Here are some of the types of prints per our scouring the
Internet:
- Wide ruled and college ruled. These paper prints are used to take down notes and write essays. They
are usually piled up and used as notebook paper. (Check out our resource
of notebook
paper templates available for download for your use). - Graphing paper. As the name implies, this paper is perfect for graphing, drawing, and
other activities related to geometry classes. - Dot-grid paper. This paper works well when you opt to make straight lines and nicely
drawn boxes.