Marbled Paper

Marbled Paper PDF Author: Richard J. Wolfe
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812281880
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Book Description
For 250 years after its introduction to Europe around 1600, the method of decorating paper known as marbling reigned supreme as the chief means of embellishing the fine work of hand-bookbinders. Richard J. Wolfe reconstructs the rise and fall of the craft and offers the most comprehensive account available of its history, techniques, and patterns. A publication of the A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Series