EditorialChinese paper-making, third process: worker boiling bamboo pulp while others spread sheets of paper on frames to dry. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptiste Jo...
EditorialChinese paper-making, second process: workers mixing glue from the hao-teng vine while another pounds farina of rice in a pestle and mortar. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bert...
EditorialChinese paper making: young bamboo shoots are stripped of their bark, beaten and soaked in river water for a fortnight. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and Jean Baptiste ...
EditorialCharles Reed Gardner, American, 1901-1974, Paper Making, between 1935 and 1943, wood engraving printed in black ink on japan paper, Image: 7 ? 8 1/2 inches (17.8 ? 21.6 cm).
EditorialPaper-making by hand at Hollingworth's Turkey Mill, Maidstone. Workers making sheets of rag paper and drying them. Woodblock engraving from the Penny Magazine, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1833.
EditorialPaper-making by hand at Hollingworth's Turkey Mill, Maidstone. Workers making sheets of rag paper and drying them. Woodblock engraving from the Penny Magazine, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1833.