Showing posts with label imitation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label imitation. Show all posts

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.






Saturday, 24 August 2013

Fake marbled endpaper-- "moire"

 
This pattern forms the endpapers of a deluxe edition of the Harvard classics, printed in 1965. It is quite frankly an imitation of Moire marbled paper, being printed as opposed to being marbled. This example is more elaborate than most, as it is printed in three colours, and has an additional smattering of gold veins