#decorative paper

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday: Paste Paper Edition

In 1942, Harvard University Press printed 250 copies of Decorated Book Papers: Being an Account of the Designs and Fashions by the bookbinder, author, and creator and collector of decorative papers, Rosamond Bowditch Loring. Published by the Harvard College Library Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the 234 sale copies of the first edition sold out within months, despite the “then considerable price of ten dollars” and the economic stressors of the war. In addition to eight plates reproducing examples of 18th century decorative papers, the first edition includes twenty-five samples tipped in, many of which are from the author’s own extensive collection. 

While Loring collected a variety of a decorative papers, the examples shown here are from the chapter on paste papers, Loring’s area of creative specialization. The sample papers included in this chapter are all Loring’s own work, or that of her student, Veronica Ruzicka, who bound the first edition (it is worthy to note that Ruzicka is the daughter of illustrator, wood engraver, and type designer Rudolph Ruzicka, whose work we have highlighted several times). Ruzicka also contributed an essay when a second edition of the book was finally published by Harvard University Press in 1952, along with Dard Hunter and Walter Muir Whitehall. 

Rosamond Loring (May 2, 1889 – September 17, 1950) studied book binding under Mary Crease Sears at the Sears School of Bookbinding in Boston. Sears, about a decade older than Loring, had had to battle to learn the trade; women were barred from the Bookbinders Union but most commercial binderies were happy to hire women for particular tasks, such as sewing sheets, but maintained a strict separation of roles, preventing employees from learning the whole binding process from start to finish. Eventually, Ms. Sears secured an apprenticeship in France to complete her studies and opened her binding school in Boston shortly after, training several generations of women binders. While studying under Sears, Loring became frustrated with the lack of options for quality endpapers and became determined to make her own, which she sold to other binders at Ms. Sears’s studio. Her first major commercial commission was for the Houghton Mifflin publication of The Antigone of Sophocles, translated by John J. Chapman (Boston, 1930).

Our copy of Decorated Book Papers is a gift of Dick Schoen. 

-Olivia Hickner, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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[adventuringpages]

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[renato-crepaldi]

Magenta stir marbled paper. Marbled with black, white and silver in a Suminagashi-like structures, bright magenta duo stir and metallic old gold spots on top. Only 10 sheets available! Signed and dated. Base paper is red, 80 gsm, long grain. Sheet size is 66 x 94 cm (26" x 37"). Will be available in the next release - July 24th at 12 UTC.

Home | Renato Crepaldi Hand Marbled Papers (bigcartel.com)

#handmade #pattern #surface design #bookmaking #interior design #bookarts #decorativepaper #marbled paper #renato crepaldi #bookbinding #papermarbling #decorative paper #paper craft #paper art #carta marmorizzata #papier marbré

[othmeralia]

The pretty books have it so easy. This decorative paper covers a 1750 French book on mineral waters.

Essai analitique sur les eaux de Bussang, 1750.

#rare books #decorative paper #bookcore #book covers #18th century #antique paper #othmeralia

[jennablackmorebooks]

I decorated a folder to keep some of my short stories in.

#art #writing #writeblr #writers on tumblr #artists on tumblr #decorating #scrapbooking #paper craft #paper art #decorative paper #wax seal #sealing wax #stories #short stories #author #crafts #crafting #collage

[sosnastudios]

more paste papers!

#bookbinding #hand binding #paste paper #decorative paper #paper #handicrafts #handmade

[starboardbowsbows]

My most recent batch of handmade gift bows

#gift bows #handmade #gift wrapping #crafts #papercraft #crafter #marbled paper #etsy seller #decorative paper #paper #racoon #raccoon #st patricks day

[u-mspcoll]

Lovely endpapers (obnoxious stamp placement!) on the back cover Isl Ms 1031, early copy of Taşköprî-zâde's (d.1561) biographical work al-Shaqāʼiq al-nuʻmānīyah (الشقائق النعمانية)

 Browse / download images of the entire manuscript and the description!  

#marbled Monday #marbled paper #ebrusanatı #ebru #marbling #paper marbling #decorative paper #el yazma #yazma eserler #yazmalar #المخطوطات العربية #المخطوطات #مخطوطات #ottoman culture #ottoman history #turkish history #turkish arts #Turkish Culture #Islamic Manuscripts #manuscript culture #Taşköprüzade #tabaqat

[zhalfirin]

Hi Zhalfrin! Big fan of your fanbindings. Just curious as to where you source your decorative papers from?

Thank you!

I get my decorative papers from a variety of sources. Some I bought on a bookbinder fair. Some from a local craft supply shop, some online via Etsy and some I got online from shops specialised in paper and bookbinding supplies. (Very few I made myself). All these shops are situated in Europe (for cheaper shipping rates) and I was familiar with the types of paper before I bought them though, so I knew what I was expecting and if they'd fit the purpose I intended them for.

Is there a special kind you'd be particularly interested in? Perhaps I could give you pointers.

#zhalfirin answers #@myrrh-dock #decorative paper #decorative paper suppliers

[bookmarksfromhell]

No. 10 Acquired 2020-2021, created soon before.

I love this bookmark. It's looks good, is pretty sturdy and is of great construction. The decorative paper that covers it feels great and I have a feeling (although I will not risk testing it) that it's fairly water resistant, at least as far as paper bookmarks go. The size, shape and thickness are great for its purpose, and the ribbon is attached well, tied loosely but securely inside of a brass grommet. The ribbon, while granting it a break in the uniformity of the print, can get in the way sometimes, but still way less than if it were a larger tuft or thicker ribbon. If my collection was a collection of the best bookmarks, and not just any and all bookmarks, this one would definitely be in it.

It was gifted to me, along with other corresponding ones for my family by a family friend.

#material: #cardboard #decorative paper #ribbon #misc #size: #date-created #soon before #date-acquired #2020 #2021 #condition: #great #subject: #small-scale industrial #decoration #favorite #bookmarks #bookmark-collection

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Paper Sunday 

Earlier this week we shared some typography from the Winter 1998 issue of Matrix, a typographic journal celebrated both for its content as well as its production and design. The above pattern paper samples are also from Matrix 18, printed at Whittington Press in Gloucestershire County, England by John and Rosalind Randle in an edition of 825. John and Rosalind founded the press, named after their Gloucestershire village, in 1971, producing the first edition of Matrix in 1981. 

The first collection of papers (image three above) accompanies a reprinting of the obituary of painter and designer, Enid Marx, written by art historian and scholar of architecture and design, Alan Powers. The selected papers represent four of the five Marx-designed papers published by the short lived Judd Street Gallery (run by Powers and his wife, Susanna), selected from unpublished pattern blocks in Marx’s studio. Power’s writes, “Marx’s genius for patterned design, more jazzy, risk-taking and lively than that of her male friends was as instinctive as perfect pitch.” Also included in this issue is an essay on the interaction of production and design by Marx, originally published in the February 1944 edition of Architectural Review. 

The second set of pattern papers (image four) appear alongside a review of In Praise of Patterned Papers. The 1997 publication by Incline Press collects essays on patterned papers, some of which are reprinted classics like a 1927 Paul Nash essay from The Woodcut, with some newly commissioned for the book. Reviewer David McKitterick writes:

“This remarkable book, spoiled though it is with innumerable misprints, is both a monument to a passion and a collector’s piece in itself. Much of the writing in it has a fervency and immediacy that no cold-blooded historian could match. More than ninety tipped-in examples enliven the whole volume with a sense of immediacy that no reproductions could command, allowing one both to test the weight and quality of the paper, and also to gain a much better sense of the tactile nature of so many of these papers.”

You can find more on Enid Marx from our collection here. 

Find more posts from Matrix here. 

View more Decorative Sunday posts here. 

-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Decorative Sunday #Matrix 18 #Matrix #Whittington Press #Decorative Paper #Pattern Papers #Enid Marx #Alan Powers #In Praise of Pattern Papers #Incline Press #Graham Moss #Paul Nash #David McKitterick #John and Rosalind Randle #decorative arts #decorative plates #olivia

[narentabindery]

New marbled papers

It took me quite a while to photograph and crop all the marbled papers I made this year and the last, but that’s finally done and uploaded to the bookbinding materials folder. You can access them directly by going to the Marbled papers folder.

I am planning to edit them further and tag them according to their style, colors and type, but for now they’re all together in one location. Once you open it will probably be clear both what my favorite style was this year, as well as some favorite colors. :)

I’m also going to put up the links to fanfic and original work commissions; I’m doing some reorganization on how that’s gonna be done. Oh and I also need to post photos of the latest work I mailed last week.

#narenta bindery #commissions #marbled papers #marbling #decorative paper

[underthesunstoreblog]

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#Printable Decorative Paper #Decorative Natural Paper #Decorative Paper

[chalkrub]

strange fellas

#my art #demon #illustration #oc #ethos #pathos #logos #lino printing fun as hell yippeeeeee #i don't have a scanner at home and i forgor to ask my mom to scan these for me like two days in a row so i just took photos #of the original scans and made do. too impatient. and the paper texture looks neat anyway #how the hell people make intricate line work with lino i do not understand. saw a mutual post a wolf's head lino print the other day #and it was so detailed with thin decorative lines. idk how they be doin it #if the answer is lots of patience and the knowledge you could fuck up at any moment then i guess i'll never hone the art

[ilikeit-art]

#paper crafts #paper cutout #wall decor #artwork #work process #back light

[shiftythrifting]

Er.... Hello sir?

#thrifting #shiftythrifting #submission #decor #a guy #paper mache #blasp family