Paper-making was invented in China, probably some 2,000 years ago. Early paper decoration techniques were also developed in both China and Japan. The marbling technique was known in these two countries as early as the 12th century AD. During the 16th century, it was popular in Persia and Turkey, and from there, knowledge of marbling spread to western Europe. In the 17th-19th centuries, there was substantial marbled paper production in Germany, France, Italy, Holland and England. A variation on marbled paper is paste paper. ...
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Paper-making was invented in China, probably some 2,000 years ago. Early paper decoration techniques were also developed in both China and Japan. The marbling technique was known in these two countries as early as the 12th century AD. During the 16th century, it was popular in Persia and Turkey, and from there, knowledge of marbling spread to western Europe. In the 17th-19th centuries, there was substantial marbled paper production in Germany, France, Italy, Holland and England. A variation on marbled paper is paste paper. In this technique, a layer of starch is applied to blank paper, and paint is added on top of it. The design is produced by manipulating the paint with a brush or scraper, or with the help of stamps or rollers. JAPANESE PAPERS includes an extensive and rare selection of such designs. This book also contains stunning examples of other Japanese paper decoration techniques, such as block printing and the application of design during the actual paper-making process.
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The book begins with a 1-page (reproduced in nine languages) very brief description of the papers, arranging the numbered images into styles and periods. The papers illustrated on the endpapers are not included. If a treatise on Japanese papers is desired, look elsewhere. This page also includes the CD-ROM and image rights. The numbered paper images follow, nicely printed in color on heavy paper. A CD with the images is affixed inside the back cover in a plastic envelope.
The designs are beautiful, interesting, and varied. Designs range from monochromatic to very colorful, and simple to subtle to bold to complex. Some would easily lend themselves to creating repeating patterns, but many would not. Each image in the book is numbered (the page number), the number being the file name on the CD. Although the printed images are square, the CD images are of varying rectangular proportions. Images on the CD are JPG in both 300ppi and 72ppi, all in the CMYK color space. The short dimension of about half of the high resolution images is 1181 pixels, the remainder having one dimension of at least 3400ppi or so. The low resolution images are 24% the size of the high resolution images.
The Pepin Press image rights declaration includes the following, ?For non-professional applications, single images can be used free of charge. The images cannot be used for any type of commercial or otherwise professional application ? including all types of printed or digital publications ? without prior permission?.? Also noted is that ??larger and/or vectorized files are available for most images and can be ordered?.? For a commercial graphic artist requiring large, high fidelity images, Pepin Press volumes are essentially catalogs.
The CD envelopes in Pepin Press books exude an oily substance onto the CD, my example being no exception. In one case in my experience it made the disc unreadable. Subsequently I have routinely cleaned Pepin CD?s with alcohol and polished with a microfiber cloth before attempting to read.
