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[Pillbo]

My suggestion is a workshop (or expansion of the mill/quern) to pulp old clothes, ropes or anything else made from silk or cloth producing plants (rope reed, pig tail, hemp, cotton, ramie, flax, jute, or kenaf) into a fiber slurry that can be used to make paper.

Pulping old cloth into paper was a large industry in pre-modern times. At one point collecting clothes from the dead in battlefields was a major source of paper in Europe, recycling rags into paper was first documented from Cai Lun in 105 CE China. It was mostly done with cotton, but silk was also used, fur/wool probably not.

With the premium release rags from goblin hordes are valueless to traders, this can be a realistic way to re-use this material in an existing industry and clean your fort for better performance. Also adding value to trash for resell would be good for the fort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_paper

[Putnam]

And also adding a non-annoying way to get writing material lol. I see no disadvantage to this.