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I painted these grapes on medium bleeding paper.

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Beautiful postcards with wood block images printed on the washi paper. Bought on my last trip to Japan

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I made a paper set of drawers using this Washi & it’s been on my desk for over 20 years. The colours have only faded a little

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this is a page in what may be a blank scrapbook i bought in a charity shop (it has pictures and japanese printed writing on some pages and a kind of calander at the front)

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Hand-marbled paper recently purchased to make a book.
It is in beautiful shades of blue and orange.

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Nefertiti printed and decorated on parchment paper

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Nefertiti printed and decorated on parchment paper

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The image is printed and embellished with gilding flakes, glitter and framed with washi tape.

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I picked up a pack of parchment paper when I was in Hong Kong many years ago.

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Ordinary printed card with rounded edges, sturdy eyelets and co-coloured ribbons. I saved them as bookmarks for their weight, the ribbon and the design :)

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My own attempt to learn paper marbling. A mix of acrylic “marbling paint” and other paints was used.

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This envelope has a pearlescent finish which appears to have been applied in two stages. One base coat and second with more silver ink to create the negative space between the dots. Alternatively the the dots could have been printed in a slightly Matt Opaque ink over the more metallic base coat. The second method may be easier as it appears that the other side of the Material is the same as the most metallic finish. I like the effect of the metallic in contrast the Matt dot pattern. Depending on the angle of the light source , the dots appear light against a darker background or darker against a lighter background.

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I used this Hand made art gift bag paper to make the cover of a Fukurotoji notebook that I am writing my bookbinding note in.

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I used this Hand made art gift bag paper to make the cover of a Fukurotoji notebook that I am writing my bookbinding note in.

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this paper was very soft and textural.

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I particularly adore this small hardcover edition of "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens because it has beautiful gilded paper edges that are smooth to the touch. I bought it at my favorite bookshop in Madrid.

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I found this paper at the back of an old painting from my grandmother in love. 

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I found this paper at the back of an old painting from my grandmother in love. 

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Hand made paper with flowers in it. It’s a lampshade.

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Hand made paper with flowers in it. It’s a lampshade.

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Buenos Aires.

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Here are two pages from a book I bought in Zhuhai, China.  It is on dirty grey tissue paper back-to-back stitched together. It is stamped in red. It opens from the "back" to the "front"

On the front cover it reads:

1. top left: 洪武捌年仲秋抄繪
2. top right: 文王八卦秘诀
3. Bottom right: 卷一劓基書

See images below. There are 21 figures like these each with some text in Chinese.

I did see  others like this in Antique/souvenir shops in Hong Kong but they were clean and so probably copies.

It looks to me like a school reading book about Chinese legends?

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Printed / embossed cloth hardcover (London, Japan, 1970)

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Printed / embossed cloth hardcover (London, Japan, 1970)

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Kanji and English titles are embossed in shiny ottoman fabric.

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Paper title slip is recessed in embossing of same size.

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Handmade paper from the foothills of the himalayas. Purchased in Heidelberg from https://www.papierwerkstatt-heidelberg.de

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Bought in a shop called 嵯峨野工房 in Saga Arashiyama, Kyoto. The cards are manually cut, thick and slightly coarse to the touch. Most are partially painted, but the butterfly on the card to the upper right was cut from a different lightl creped paper and glued to the card.

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I found these scraps of washi in a small bookstore in Kamakura. The paper is very thin and delicate, it cannot be folded without crumpling. The surface is smooth to the touch, but some of the decorations are embossed (the ones with the dragonfly motive). The shopkeeper suggested they could be used to embellish a scrapbook, but she wasn't sure of the original purpose.

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Bought in a small shop in Arashiyama, Kyoto. The paper is white and thick, irregular (see the unrefined edges) but smooth to the touch. I'm not sure about the technique used to paint the scenery. The paper is thick enough that the colour painted on the main side can't be seen through when looking at the flip side.

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This photo album is made of paper obtained from banana tree fibers. The sheets are thick, brown but not homogenous (with some small darker spots now and then), and coarse to the touch.

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Embossing of front cover of 1848 Japanese book

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Embossing of front cover of 1848 Japanese book

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Embossing (9 x 16 cm) of the front cover of 三世因果 - 大經五惡圖會 from 1848 (my own transcript - Daikyō goaku zue). The scan has been enhanced to make the figure - a pond from which lotus (water lily) flowers are rising - more visible.

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10x10cm fragment (27x34 cm) of a scroll 

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10x10cm fragment (27x34 cm) of a scroll 

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The thick and smooth paper (no su-marks visible) is decorated with hand-painted bamboo in gold paint and then written upon (manuscript - shita-e). The backside is speckled with small squares of gold leaf.

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I made these at a workshop in a local Paper Source store. The earrings have multiple layers of paper that I bonded together to make it more sturdy. They have a similar rabbit design on the back as well and have silver at the top. The rabbit paper features red flecks of another paper which gives it a nice dimension.

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This paper is used on the cover of a book of poetry by Yone Noguchi published in 1910. It is blue paper with  silver specks throughout. The paper is soft and flexible and has a fine grid texture. It is printed with the book title and images of fish in silver ink. The printing was done in a relief method (such as woodblock printing) and left a sharp impression in the soft paper. I bought this book in a used bookstore in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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A marbled paper I made in a workshop, dark grey paper with silver, blue and green inks.  Can't remember all the techniques but certainly dropped, combed and swirled a couple of times.  Catches the light nicely

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My own painting on handmade paper (the poetry is also my original). The words had to be printed, my hands were just beginning to show tremors at this stage.  The paper was dyed with a very weak mixture of the ink I used for the drawing and a tiny bit of walnut. The edge of the painting has a thin gold line. I copied the bamboo from a traditional Chinese painting, as I was learning how to do it.

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This paper has a cream magnolia colour with lots of bright orange plant leaves inbedded within it. The texture is quite rough to touch with some raised plant fibers. I bought it from an art store in Glasgow.

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maybe Japanese or Chinese

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intense blue pages

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3 pages from the English artist JMW Turners 'Wilson' sketchbook (approx 106 x 90 mm) 1797 - used when he was just 21 on a sketching tour north of England. He usually tinted the sketchbook papers a blue-grey or a red-brown himself before he used the sketchbook which provided a mid-tone background to which he could add lighter (white) and darker (black) area of tones

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'Pattern Poetry II'  a book of English poetry with end papers consisting of a design of repeated buildings / 2 figures reading and a tree plus a date of 1798

Book is dated 1935 so I've no idea what papers or the date refer to - maybe something to do with the publishers Thomas Nelson and Sons

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'Lord Macaulays Essays' 1895 a prize for English but don’t I think it was ever read!

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John Ruskins 'Elements of Drawing' 1892

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embossed image from Rachel Gibsons hand-made artists book 'Finding Five' 1995 with hand-made paper

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I couldn't help but upload also one of samples ... (size is 7 x 6 cm)

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Daisen (title slip) of a manuscript book (size 19 x 4 cm)

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Daisen (title slip) of a manuscript book (size 19 x 4 cm)

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The book title has been hand written in this case, on a piece of paper adorned with pieces of gold (?) leaf. The book has about 200 pages of (what are said to be) samples of kimono decorations. Book age is yet to be investigated.

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End paper from 1892 edition of John Ruskin's Elements of Drawing given to my grandfather as a school prize for drawing

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This is a detail from a sheet of Sumi paper, a Chinese paper used for calligraphy. It has a very delicate off white colour and a ribbed texture imparted by the manufacturing process

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The marbled paper used on the outside of "Natural History of birds, fish, insects and reptiles" published in 1798.

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This is a closeup of a sheet of paper in "Natural History of birds, fish, insects and reptiles" Vol 1 published in 1798 in London. The watermark appears to be a number. On a different page I can see 1795 (the date of manufacture of the paper)?. I can also see horizontal and vertical lines from the paper making mesh.

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This is a book necklace I made, using all the most beautiful papers I had on hand. There are marbled papers, decoratively embossed papers, bark paper, and very slick "fleshy" feeling paper. Some paper I purchased from a Japanese paper store, and some paper was gifted to me!

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This comes from a beautiful notebook given by a friend and colleague. There is also embossing which gives it slight texture.

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This painting was given, and the paper it is painted on very nice paper, and clear su-no-me can be seen, along with a rough, somewhat crêpe-like in texture. It is easily recognizable as artisanal paper, and is very pleasant to look at. Excuse the odd angle; I chose it to avoid any reflections of nearby lighting, so as to make it easier on the eyes.

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An Italian envelope lined with beautifully patterned paper.

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An Italian envelope lined with beautifully patterned paper.

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A piece of suminagashi that I made last week. The paper is Khadi (high cotton content) 100gsm

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A piece of suminagashi that I made last week. The paper is Khadi (high cotton content) 100gsm

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Printed wrapping paper from a design by Angie Lewin UK

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Printed wrapping paper from a design by Angie Lewin UK

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Fiberous Hanji

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Second Japanese block print on handmade paper

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Japanese block prints on handmade paper brought back from a visit made by my grandmother to Japan some 60 years ago.

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Japanese block prints on handmade paper brought back from a visit made by my grandmother to Japan some 60 years ago.

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Scrapbook back side

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Scrapbook present

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The blue/grey is lokta or mulberry type paper, fine yet strong. I used it to cover a box. The other is handcut paper from south east Asia.

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The paper is called “chagrin”. There are some colors, but this one is black and pink. It is glossy and it is used in a A6 notebook from Emilio Braga Stationery  (www.emiliobraga.com). As I read in another website, the pattern reproduces “old wrapping papers” (REFERENCE: https://www.avidaportuguesa.com/marcas/emilio-braga_48 )

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The paper is called “chagrin”. There are some colors, but this one is black and pink. It is glossy and it is used in a A6 notebook from Emilio Braga Stationery  (www.emiliobraga.com). As I read in another website, the pattern reproduces “old wrapping papers” (REFERENCE: https://www.avidaportuguesa.com/marcas/emilio-braga_48 )

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From an edition of Dickens' "Pickwick Papers", publishers Chapman and Hall 1905.

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From the "Albion" edition of a Complete Works of Shakespeare, publishers Griffith and Farran of London 1893.

JoAnne

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Paper for printmaking with Watermark

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Reeves paper from France showing watermark

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Book by Piet Worm (excuse typo in previous post!)

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Book by Piet Worm (excuse typo in previous post!)

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Close-up of paper used with light behind it

JoAnne

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Showing lithographic illustrations

JoAnne

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Lokta paper from the Himalayas via Wales

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Lokta paper from the Himalayas via Wales

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Wax resist and dyed with natural dye. Will need to find out which. I will probably use it to make a book.

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Showing the water marks.

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The sheets & envelopes came presented in this green ribbon. I stuck a sheet on the window to show the water marks - next post!