Showing posts with label endpaper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label endpaper. Show all posts

Thursday, 9 November 2017

Sprinkled paper

This particular example of sprinkled paper was purchased in London some years ago. When purchased, it was already several decades old. It is clearly of a kindred nature to a trickled paper already featured here The paper is a cloudy pattern, made in gray, green and red. The paper itself is deteriorated and brittle.

Papers of this sort remind one of the papers manufactured by Edward Seymour's Fancy paper company. Perhaps it was made by that institution?


Monday, 29 February 2016

Indonesian blankbook: Endpapers


Below you see the endpapers of the Indonesian blankbook shown here and here  They are printed in a fetching shade of orangey pink. The pattern consists of dark orange squares on a paler "arabesque" background. 

I have observed that most modern blankbooks do not have decorated endpapers. Although certainty economical, it does rob the books of a certain amount of charm. 

Sunday, 2 February 2014

Trickled paper

The following decorated paper is best called "trickled paper", for it probably described its method of manufacture. It is executed in shades of dull blue and pink, and forms the endpapers of an edition of The book of Common prayer, printed around 1947.

Thursday, 12 September 2013

Marbled paper- double comb

The following endpaper is found on a book published in 1866, by Routledge. It is of a pattern that is known as the "double comb".

 
As you can see, this pattern is a variation of the nonpareil pattern http://decoratedpaper.blogspot.sg/2013/08/marbled-paper-1-nonpareil.html . The difference, however, is that an extra step is required in this pattern. In a nonpareil, the colours are manipulated by with a comb-like device. However, in this pattern, an extra comb, with teeth of different width, is then used, resulting in the effect you see here.

Saturday, 31 August 2013

"leather" paper

The following paper forms the endpapers of a pocket journal published in the 1960s. From it's appearance, it appears to be imitating some sort of leather. We can also say with some confidence that the paper is printed. Aside from which, we know little else about it.