Paper size a number of different sizes were defined for large sheets of paper, and paper sizes were defined by the sheet name and the number of times it had been folded. Thus a full sheet of "royal" paper was 25 × 20 inches, and "royal octavo" was this size folded three times, so as to make eight sheets, and was thus 10 × inches. Imperial sizes were used in the United Kingdom and its territories. These sizes are no longer commonly used since the UK switched to ISO sizes. Many of these sizes were only used for making books (see bookbinding),
Peter's vision of a sheet with animals Peter's vision of a sheet with animals According to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10, Saint Peter had a vision of a vessel (, "skeuos"; "a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners") full of animals being lowered from heaven (). A voice from heaven told Peter to kill and eat, but since the vessel (or sheet, ὀθόνη, "othonē") contained unclean animals, Peter declined. The command was repeated two more times, along with the voice saying, "What God hath made clean, that call not thou common" (verse 15) and