Parchment & Paper
The substrate. Animal skin scraped, stretched and limed into vellum; paper travelling from Han China through Samarkand and Baghdad to Fabriano and then everywhere; rag pulp, watermarks, the mill, and the acid-paper disaster that is quietly destroying most of what was printed after 1850.
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46 moments in this segment.
- - Bifolium Excised from a Carolingian Gradual. 9th century. gold and silver ink on purple parchment. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 830–60. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
- - Magna Carta deposited in Congressional Library for duration of war. Washington, D.C., Nov. 28. The most cheris. Title: Magna Carta deposited in Congressional Library for duration of war. Washington, D.C., Nov. 28. The most cherished existing copy of the Magna Carta was today deposited in the Congressional Library here for the duration of the war by British Ambassador Lord Lothian.
- - Peacock-shaped Hand Washing Device (recto); Text Page, Arabic Prose (verso). ). Syria, Damascus, Mamluk Period, 14th Century. opaque watercolor and gold on paper. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1315. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
- - The Altar and the Book, Lake Tana Earth Church, Ethiopia. An Ethiopian Christian manuscript in Ge’ez, written on goatskin parchment and bound in the distinctive Ethiopian wooden-board style.
- - Ethiopia Aksum MonksPresentingTheBible. An Ethiopian Christian manuscript in Ge’ez, written on goatskin parchment and bound in the distinctive Ethiopian wooden-board style.
- - 1823 Marbled paper from Amsterdam with Library of Congress bookplate page 2. 1823 Marbled paper from Amsterdam with Library of Congress bookplate
- - The Library of Congress, Washington. Smithmeyer & Pelz, architect. [Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] [February 14, 1893] 1 drawing: ink and graphite on linen; sheet 73 x 126 cm. Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Sheet no. 533. Original drawing number and classification: 533/D (Ironwork). Subjects: Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building (Washington, D.C.)--1890-1900. Ironwork--1890-1900. Domes--1890-1900. Lanterns
- - The Library of Congress, Washington, a second view. Smithmeyer & Pelz, architect. [Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] [1893] 1 drawing: ink on linen; in folder 102 x 152 cm. Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Caption on drawing: "Plaster and stuccowork. Reading room, dome & lantern." Sheet no. 615. Original drawing number and classification: 615/F (Plaster & stucco work). Original materials served by appointment only. Subjects: Library o
- - How paper is made, 1940s. A period industrial film documenting the papermaking process as it stood in the 1940s.
- - A history of the printed word and papermaking, 1951. A 1951 documentary linking the history of writing and printing to the manufacture of paper.
- - Cattail-handmade-paper-3d-1280. Anaglyphic 3-D image of handmade paper using cattail plant fibers made using a laser confocal microscope. This image is part of the Paper Project and is a companion image of the pseudo-color version. To see the image in 3-D requires red-blue anaglyphic glasses.
- - Cattail-handmade-paper-1280. Microscopic image of handmade paper using cattail plant fibers made using a laser confocal microscope. This pseudo-color image is part of the Paper Project and is a companion image of the anaglyphic image version.
- - Scanning electron image of handmade paper from barrel cactus fibers - 100x. This image is a scanning electron micrograph (S.E.M.) of handmade paper. The fibers are from the Arizona barrel cactus plant (Ferocactus wislizeni,) This image was created in 2007 by Charles Kaziek as part of the science and art fusion collaborative called the Paper Project. Image magnification - 100X.
- - How parchment is made. BBC film for the Domesday programme following a skin through liming, scraping over the frame and drying into parchment.
- - MP2 LC Paper. Papermaking, the vats, moulds and machines that turn fibre into sheets. Modern photograph.
- - Papermaking and the history of paper. Papermaker Ray Tomasso lectures at CU Boulder Libraries on paper's history and manufacture.
- - Machine à papier. Papermaking, the vats, moulds and machines that turn fibre into sheets. Modern photograph.
- - Thimphu - Papierherstellung. Papermaking, the vats, moulds and machines that turn fibre into sheets. Modern photograph.
- - Photograph of Female Employees Operating Machines for Stiffening Paper - DPLA - 88763f6db7b3063d42bcb11a241d95. Papermaking, the vats, moulds and machines that turn fibre into sheets. Modern photograph.
- - Traditional Islamic papermaking demonstrated. Papermaker Radha Pandey presents and demonstrates Islamic-world papermaking, including the burnished, sized surfaces made for calligraphy.
- - Weird Tales and the pulp magazines. A history of the pulp magazine market that carried Lovecraft and Howard and shaped cheap popular reading.
- - Stretching a hide on the parchment frame. A practitioner shows the stretching and scraping stage that turns a limed skin into a writing surface.
- - A Stem History of paper production. own work - growth of paper production as it responds to different events in history. Exaggerated scale, and many numbers before 20th century are (educated) guesses.
- - Parchment making: an Oxford introduction. Bodleian conservators Nicole Gilroy and Andrew Honey explain parchment production and conservation for Oxford manuscript students.
- - Traditional paper making Goang Xing Paper Mill Taiwan 01. Papermaking, the vats, moulds and machines that turn fibre into sheets. Modern photograph.
- - Fleur-de-lis watermark, 1787 Edinburgh Edition, Burns Poems. A fleur-de-lis watermark, 1787 Edinburgh Edition of Burns Poems. Chain and line handmade paper.
- - Making medieval parchment from a sheep hide. A full documentation of parchment production from a raw skin, following the medieval sequence of liming, dehairing, stretching and scraping.
- - Pulp magazines in the 1920s. A social history of the pulps as a mass reading format, covering their production, price and audience.
- - Washi in Japanese rare books. A short study of the paper used in Japanese rare books and how its structure differs from Western paper.
- - The tools of the parchment maker. Sara Charles lays out the lunellum, frame and other tools needed to turn a skin into parchment.
- - Hand papermaking through the centuries. International Paper Museum on how hand papermaking developed after paper reached Europe.
- - Parchment making, studied by scientists. The University of Namur's Pergamenum21 project shows parchment being made while physicists, chemists and historians analyse it.
- - The last parchment workshop in America. Business Insider visits Pergamena, where animal hides are still turned into writing parchment by hand.
- - 2021 PapiermuehleInnen. Papermaking, the vats, moulds and machines that turn fibre into sheets. Modern photograph.
- - Maintaining a 170-year-old Washington hand press. Sacramento History Museum shows the routine upkeep of an iron hand press.
- - What is lost when books are banned. A Washington Post report examining recent removals and the arguments used to justify them.
- - Silk Road papermaking revived in Uzbekistan. An AP report on the revival at Konigil of the Samarkand papermaking process that carried paper westward from China.
- - In search of Indo-Islamic papermaking. A Met lecture on the papermaking traditions of the Islamic world and South Asia, and fieldwork tracing surviving practice.
- - The 92-year-old who saved Turkish parchment. Business Insider profiles the craftsman who kept parchment-making alive in western Turkey.
- - Kurotani washi, used to restore the Louvre's works. A Kyoto workshop makes an exceptionally strong washi that conservators worldwide use for repairs.
- - Washington Post books editor John Williams. A newspaper books editor discusses reviewing, coverage decisions and how criticism interacts with the trade.
- - Hand papermaking demonstrated in a museum. A working papermaker forms sheets at the North Carolina Museum of Art and explains pulp preparation.
- - Parchment makers in present-day Ethiopia. A documentary on Ethiopian parchment production, an unbroken craft still supplying scribes and church manuscripts.
- - A washi papermaker working alone. A Japanese craftsman making washi single-handedly, filmed through the whole process from bark to dried sheet.
- - Making a limp parchment binding. A demonstration of the limp parchment binding that became widespread for cheaper books.
- - The seven-day parchment process. A craft documentary following the full traditional sequence from raw skin to finished writing surface.
