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Show TH PAPERMAKIN MOUL 19 period has litle bearing on the number of lines found in old papers, and that therefore there is no possible way of cataloguing o indexing these impressions in paper so that a particular time place of origin may be determined. Ancient paper, both Orienta 12 amboo mould covering from Lo China in which there ar thirty- :xgl\( laid-lines to the inc and Occidental, must be placed by its general characteristics, an not by any list of rules that can be gi n as infallible Metal wire was originally made in Europe by beating the matesial into thin plates, and then cutting it into strips and roundin them with a hammer. The earliest Occidental moulds must hav been made with wires fashioned in this manner, as the first watermark dates from about 1270 and was no doubt formed of metal and not of bamboo. Wire making by use of the draw-plate wa probably known in Niirnberg early in the 14th century; the History of dugsburg, x3>x and that of Niirnberg, 1360, mention th "wire-drawers" (Dr her). The draw-plate was imported int France by Richard Ar: I, and first made its appearance in Ex\ land in 1565,h en taken to that country by a Ger workman named Sch\lkr e Enghsh patent by Brockedon, (h:c 1819, specifies the use of diamonds, rubics, sapphires, and othe gems, drilled for draw-eyes and mounted in iron, to be used in th Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |
