| Comments (0). those old fashioned doilies, the plastic ones, make nifty watermarks. Long, strongly colored fibers that are visible without magnification can often be identified as wool. Wouldn't this be fun to add "BOO" to a Halloween card? For many years we occasionally made a paper for the Plantin Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium with a Compass watermark. For Finants Ministeriet see http://www.fm.dk/ 2 pieces of wove cover 10 x 10 mm have been cut out to make mould unusable (security). Stories about whats hidden within a selection of worksdiscovered through technical analysisare now highlighted in the galleries. He has visited hundreds of paper mills in recent years providing consultancy services to many in India, Bhutan and the Philippines. Artists working in dry media, such as pastels, appreciate this surface quality. At 8,750 feet, Helen's studio must be one of the highest in America. Comments (0). These small moulds were made by E Amies & Son (date unknown) to make two bills on each mould. The oldest known watermarks date to 13th-century Europe and were considered marks of origin, though sometimes they indicated quality levels. Finally it was to appear in a paper which is on the heavy side for a detailed watermark. By researching watermarks and closely inspecting irregularities in chain and laid lines in paper, we can make assumptions about where and when paper might have originated. We obtained a copy of the towns coat of arms which was far too complicated for a small watermark. These moulds were given to me by Museu Moli Paperer de Capellades, Catalunya in exchange for a Hayle Mill pair. In this case 6 slips were made as part of a larger sheet (442 x 724mm - 17 " x 28 ") which after drying and glazing was torn along the heavy watermark "tearing wires". If you have recollections or anecdotes that you would like to contribute, please can you email me by early January 2018. WOW! Simon Barcham Green is the sixth generation of the family that ran Hayle Mill in the Paper City, Maidstone, Kent, from 1812 to 1987. | If the blank sheets were printed damp, they would enlarge slightly at that stage. The images are organised on the site in the collections from which they have come and in many cases you can find images of, for example, papermaking and papermills in unexpected places. Helen Hiebert invited all of us to visit her studio in Redcliff, an old mining town. The Amalgamated Press was founded by Alfred Harmsworth in 1888 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Harmsworth,_1st_Viscount_Northcliffe). Moulds could last for several hundred thousand sheets and may have had one or two replacement deckles in their entire life. Not many counties are lucky enough to have such extensive photo collections on line and we are very fortunate to be able to benefit from the hard work by the volunteers mentioned. M Peraudeau later started a spin off museum at Vallis Clausa in Provence (http://www.avignon-et-provence.com/making-of-paper/vallis-clausa/) and we made paper with those watermarks too. The rest of the story is rather sad. If anyone knows where this package is, please let me know. I explained the brief, which had some unusual points. The Mill was in the hands of the scrap merchant, whose priority was to cut equipment up. GSW were one of the main makers of moulds and are reasonably well represented in my collection. Paper conservation fellow Leonie Mller shares with Index readers the material qualities of paper and how its structures reveal the process of how its made. Posted at 10:54 PM | Permalink Overall size is 122 x 661 mm. Copyright Simon Barcham Green 2011. This is a nice example of the mark illustrating how the wire is shaped and the various features like the shield with cross, waves, orb, spear, sprig of leaves (?) | In those days, fax was the leading edge of communication (how the world has changed since) and I was thrilled when the calligraphic design arrived. These watermarks were associated with the Demy size (393 x 519 mm, 15 1/2" x 20 1/2") of a much wider range originally produced for the paper merchants F J Head & Company. Full sheets can have a pulled edge, which is an effect that occurs when the papermakers assistant stretched the still-malleable paper while removing it from the felt. | The map is printed letterpress on Finale and opens out to three feet wide, A portfolio of twelve Barcham Green papers 7 x10 inches enclosed in an India Office paper wrapper, A portfolio of nineteen historic photographs from 1870 to 1977 of the mill and the processes of handpapermaking together with a diagram of the mill layout in 1978 all enclosed in a De Wint paper wrapper.

This piece of paper shows where the mould made indentations. Because industrialization of paper making is a relatively new technology, the paper used for printed objects, both books and prints, normally shows consistency. Ron MacDonald joined the firm of Edwin Amies & Son Ltd in 1948 and continues to run the business near Maidstone. | https://arnoldgrummerpapermaking.blogspot.com/2015/04/creating-memories-using-handmade-paper.html?showComment=1649236119119#c9056086294126357935. About 30 years ago I was lucky enough to purchase a number of engraved plates from the late Ron MacDonald. They measure520 x 635 mm and would have made a single sheet of paper to have been torn in half along the tear wire when dry. He has a BSc in Paper Science from the University of Manchester and worked in a half-dozen machine mills before joining the family business where he introduced the first alkaline-sized, mould-made watercolor papers and hand-made papers in the world. They are very unusual in having a deckle divided lengthwise (ie hand to hand) to make two long thin sheets 135 x 678 mm which were probably folded in half. All work is ongoing and new collections are added on a regular basis. Alongside him was Andrew French who had joined the business from school about ten years before. Not to be copied or reproduced without written permission, Posted at 03:38 PM | Permalink Tovil was the industrial village near to Hayle Mill (sadly it is now all modern housing estates; there is very little employment in Tovil now). Very informative and useful ideas about handmade papers. He developed many new papers for conservation purposes and worked closely with leading private presses to produce bespoke papers including special watermarks. The last couple of hundred sheets of Antique Rose were sold for a special project that I will announce in a few months time.

These could then have been guillotined to diamond slips wasting extra operator time and the offcuts. Leonie Mller is the Craigen W. Bowen Paper Conservation Fellow in the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums. So it took some years for Sandwich to become a success, no doubt aided by publication of this article in Fine Printwhich was by far the most influential journal in its field at the time. For North America you may wish to have NTSC video format in which case please order direct from the makershttp://www.iarecordings.org/productions/p20.html, price 13.45. I am sorry this picture is out of focus but I don't have the time to re-take it. A Personal View of Paper History: An Illustrated Talk. These clearly visible differences help us guess the age of the paper, since they align with developments in paper making history. These had been engraved with the lines required for the watermark and plate is an example. I recommend it to you but not for papermaking. This presentation will be an abridged tour of 2,000 years of papermaking from the former owner of Hayle Mill, Englands last full-scale, commercial, handmade paper mill. However the last time I visited was a brief holiday in California in 1999. The presentation will include numerous Hayle Mill images dating back to the 19th century and recollections of major Californian book projects of the late 20th Century using Hayle Mill papers including those for the Arion Press, the Press in Tuscany Alley and the Allen Press. Mr Ryman opened the first ever self-service stationery shop with sales in the first week of 50. I'll try and get some more moulds up very soon. At the completion of the project the 'Kent Photo Archive' website was produced to fulfil the lottery fund requirement to make the images available for public viewing. Note the depressed oval which would make a darker area in the sheet above which might have been printed an engraved image. It was only after we made the paper that I realised the 1986 calendar was exactly the same as that in 1906 so that GSW could have changed just one figure to make it current! The Hayle Mill Archives are regarded as unique in British papermaking history in terms of their scope and completeness. Watermarks (designs which appear in a sheet of paper when illuminated) have intrigued me since the first time I laid eyes upon them. In 1974, prior to taking over Hayle Mill from W & R Balston Ltd, I succeeded in securing a large contract from the Richard de Bas museum in Ambert, France. It originated in 2004 as part of a lottery funded joint project between the County town's local Museum (Maidstone Museum) and Camera Club (Maidstone C.C). Laid lines sewn to ribs (much of sewing perished) and laid lines stitched in unusual pattern to cover half way between ribs. These are assumed to be card moulds. An wonderful watermark in a piece of paper from around 1560. Posted at 05:44 PM | Permalink Whilst it is common to have a deckle fitted with a divider to produce two sheets on a single mould, multiple divisions are rare and I have very few to make four sheets. Comments (0). After it closed commercially in the 1950s it was rescued by a remarkable man Marius Peraudeau. The cover wire is perished and worn through in many places. In both traditions, the laid structure in the paper forms because the fibers from the pulp that collect on the mould sink into the small spaces between the wire or bamboo, leaving fewer fibers on the protruding parts of the mould. These are a particularly historic pair of moulds as they were used to make the last full scale production batch of hand-made paper at Hayle Mill and hence in the United Kingdom. There were 237 Ryman stores in 2012 - http://www.ryman.co.uk/help/about/history/, Posted at 05:38 PM | Permalink Comments (0). In raking light, you can see where the felt was pressed against the same paper on the other side. The four components come in a linen covered clamshell box lined inside with Martian Badger paper. Of course, not all papers exhibiting a laid structure are handmade. Apart from a large collection of prints on paper, Ialso own a significant collection of 7 x 7 inch glass plate negatives. We decided on a two-pronged approach.

The Head represents that of Christ as transferred to the kerchief of St Berenice (or Veronica as it is said to be the Vera Icon or true image) when she wiped his face as he carried the cross to Golgotha. These moulds are inexplicable. Afterwards, they were cut into adhesive-backed rubber called butternut. Incidentally, it is easier to form fine detail in wire rolled to be higher than it is wide. A copy of this suite in two volumes with text sold in June 2011 on eBay for $139,000! Al scratched his head and a few days later showed me four pages of rough drawings. Serge is now carrying on the business of mould making in Belgium. Nevertheless on his first day back he made 1,000 sheets of Crisbrook and, as was his tradition, went home looking spotless with clean white shirt, shiny black shoes, no traces of pulp on him and looking as though ready to start another day's work. This explains why watermarks are not found on older Asian papers, as the flexible bamboo mould does not allow for wire or other attachments. Besides the mould-made structures in the paper, there are other traces of manufacture we can see. Comments (0). Posted at 12:18 AM | Permalink | | Here is a closeup of the back up of the mould showing the sewing. This kind of lower quality paper may have been cheaper to buy and was possibly used for packaging and other everyday applications, such as drafting paper in offices. This image of a handmade paper shows the deckled edge on the top and right side of the sheet. Over the years Ron was in contact with many papermakers of all sizes and he will be remembered for his kindness, patience and good humour as well as his beautiful moulds. Featured Moulds 53 - M178 Ottoman Persian script mould, Featured Moulds 52 - M260 Coutts & Co Bankers London, Featured Mould 51 - M232 Various banknote samples, Small, very historic Albion Press for sale, Hayle Mill photographs can now be viewed on line at Kent Photo Archives, Featured Moulds 50 - M119 Ryman's Jacobean Hand-made, http://www.ryman.co.uk/help/about/history/, Featured Moulds 49 M115 The Amalgamated Press, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Harmsworth,_1st_Viscount_Northcliffe, Featured Moulds 48 M044 F J Head Laid Royal, http://www.whimsie.com/antique%20art%20supplies.html, Featured Moulds 46 M025 Finale - the last moulds used at Hayle Mill, Featured Moulds 45 M007 art et valeur Paris, Featured Mould 44 M300 Finants Ministeriet, Denmark, Mould Catalogue Updated 27th October 2014, Download Papermaking at Hayle Mill SLIDE SHOW 10.08.08 (1), Featured Moulds 43 - M295 Miguel Cal Manel Cigarette Paper, Hand Made Paper and Felts still available, Download Paper-and-felt-catalogue-21.08.2011, Featured Mould 42 - M294 Commercial Bank of Scotland, Featured Moulds 41 - M293 Batchelor Hand Made Laid with oak leaves and acorns, Download 'Interim Preservation' as published by the Institute of Conservation in Icon News May 2011, Featured Moulds 40 - M292 Wove moulds with elongated deckle divider, Featured Moulds 39 - M271 Coutts & Cie, Strand, Londres Bill Moulds, Featured Mould 38 - M266 Wove mould with leather roll "deckle", Featured Moulds 37 - M263 Gwas Gregynog with irregular chain line spacing, Featured Moulds 36 - M262 Coarse Wove Imperial, Featured Mould 35 - M261 J Green & Son Banknote sampler, Featured Moulds 34 - M257 Good example of nearly unused wove moulds, Featured Moulds 33 - M255 Batchelor & Sons Kent Laid, Featured Moulds 32 - M253 F J Head Laid Medium, Featured Moulds 31 - M254 F J Head Laid Demy, Featured Moulds 30 - M265 Moreleign Hand Made laid notepaper, Featured Moulds 29 - M252 Heavy laid card moulds, Featured Moulds 28 - M251 The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China 1921, Feature Moulds 27 - M248 Diamond wove envelope moulds, Featured Moulds 26 - M247 Moreleign Hand Made laid notepaper, Featured Moulds 25 - M243 Zig Zag laid coarse moulds, Featured Moulds 24 - Unusual longitudinal deckle divider, http://www.iarecordings.org/productions/p20.html, Featured Moulds 23 - M241 Coutts & Co Bankers London - single sheet moulds, Featured Moulds 22 - M238 Small bill moulds with edge watermarking but no lettering. MA Although wove with backing wire, there appear to be no chain lines under ribs.

But there are a number of ladies making paper in the Rocky mountains and two of them were instrumental in organising a retreat for the board and advisers to Hand Papermaking. Copyright Simon Barcham Green 2011. We kept a few sheets one of which we donated to a Hand Papermaking auction which Terry now has. Comments (0). There is more to paper than meets the eye. Harvard Art Museums Many of my posts are about watermarks as they exist on the moulds themselves. My stock list can be Downloaded here. I am hooked on this decorative technique! This catalogue also includes traditional"wet felts" which were made to demanding professional specifications. Comments (0). 419 x 496 mm. The tour starts at the University of Iowa Center for the Book and the whole tour has been organised by its Director Tim Barrett who has also run its papermaking courses and research for many years. I just find out later and whilst I have edited all these pictures (Photoshop Elements 8) I have not adjusted white balance as getting them all consistent and accurate would be very timeconsuming and of little value. This is a an amazingly high number and those moulds are a lasting tribute to his skill and ingenuity. Now I chose my paper to become stationary so I created some lovely matching envelopes too! This is an exceptionally fine pair of moulds used to make custom notepaper for Ryman's, the stationers. This will also benefit the wood followed by some linseed oil. Richard de Bas is one of the oldest papermills in Europe and is well worth making a journey to - http://www.richarddebas.fr/. Following the last making of Compass, we decided to produce a version of this paper as an addition to our stock range. These were intended to wear better than boxwood but had the disadvantage that the moulds slid too readily on the bridge over the vat and could fall off. I am not sure how this one survived. 90 Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, certificate for 1 share, 185(4), scrollwork at left, black, embossed seal, printed by Waterlow & Sons, VF. Paper Conservation Transmitted light reveals watermarks, which can help in dating artworks. Comments (0). No water bars. As we usually gave our papers the names of British towns and villages, this seemed a good choice. A vatman would dunk the moulds in a vat filled with pulp and lift them up again, slightly agitating the pulp collecting on the mould while doing so to form an even sheet. | The size 572 x 800mm (Large Imperial) and watermarks suggest they may have been used to make Green's Pasteless Board for which heavy weight (Imperial 200lb & 300lb, 400 & 600 g/m2) the coarse mesh would help drainage. Great post, Sandee! Comments (0). Very heavy laid wires @ ~ 2.5 wires/cm with thin wires between every second pair of heavy wires. Comments (0). The long thin divider is easily broken as illustrated in these photographs.

2022 Helen Hiebert Studio. I have been feeling somewhat guilty about not posting recently due to starting a new job, dealing with all sorts of interesting matters and life in general. Whatman made laid texture paper with a Britiannia device/watermark See more on the source site: a Virtual art supplies Museum. The 1,000 sheets were taken to the exhibition but very few were handed out to those attending the stand because someone stole the entire packet. Eventually Sandwich became established and popular and indeed it was one of the first stock lines to sell out when Hayle Mill ceased production in 1987. Indeed the bank had threatened my Great Great Grandfather John Barcham Green with jail for an alleged infringement. | The contracts were a secret (partly as M Peraudeau told me we made their paper better than they did) and inadvertent clues were a source of intrigue for our US importer Vera Freeman of Andrews Nelson Whitehead. To allow adequate time to help employees find new jobs, use up raw materials and provide good stock for the inevitable, but short term, sales boom, we decided to continue production for about three months. graphite was dusted onto the wax but wiped off the surface leaving the carbon only in the impressed lines. The date of 1399 is entirely spurious. This thick machine-made paper has a laid structure and a watermark. | Choosing an extremely high-quality product, like the Mega Clean Detox Drink will avoid these risks. When we change the angle of light and let the light shine through the paper, we create transmitted lightthats when the chain and laid lines become clearly visible.

The watermark sits between broader spaced chain lines and is supported by an additional thinner wire, which was a customary practice in Italy. Prior to 1987 the deckle had suffered major damage to one corner joint. These felts are all well used but have plenty of life left in them for low intensity use. | Some moulds used for Richard de Bas were made especially for them and returned to France when the contracts ended. Comments (0). Note the watercut edge of this paper produced on a cylinder mould machine. Perhaps the two strips of brass support the divider better. The Hayle Mill photographic archive is the best collection illustrating papermaking in the UK and dates back to 1870. I am offering these for a sale as a job lot (i.e. This included a fine Fourdrinier paper machine, a fabulous and by then rare spar drum dryer and an even rarer diamond sheet cutter. Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum | Busch-Reisinger Museum | Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The images on the website are deliberately low resolution to discourage copying and to protect copyright. I purchased them from Gordon Whitehead in 1990 so they are likely to have been used at Wookey Hole Mill in Somerset. This single mould was made by E Amies & Son in 6/1954 to demonstrate the watermarking techniques available for banknotes. The diamond cutter had a blade that could be swiveled to about 45 degrees giving great versatility and it was beautifully engineered. Developing a market for a new stock handmade printing paper is a long term business. But when we tip the lamps at our workbenches a bit or use a handheld flashlight, we create whats called raking light. Posted at 06:26 PM | Permalink Laminated green silhouette couched onto a white base sheet.

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