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Victoria Eng said of her grandmother, who she identified as Chui Flong Eng, 85, on a crowdfunding page.

The modern wet stereotype “flong,” in common use today, consists of several layers of special paper pasted together to form a thick sheet.

In newspaper syndicate plants, the “flong” is made automatically by a specially devised machine into which the various kinds of paper used are fed from rolls, the pasting and cutting into sheets being mechanical.

In molding a papier-mache matrix, the moist “flong” is laid on the original molding form to be duplicated, the molding form being in place on the table of the molding press.

The “flong” is covered with several blankets of thick felt and the table of the molding press is then automatically moved in under a powerful roller which squeezes the moist flong down into the form.