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Show LAID AND WOVE-HUNTER 58 ing for paper molds. 'I‘he \rom established paper making in BuTope in the tenth or el S and it is thought that meta hbu i century or so later s lly 25 1351 it is recorded s Baseest n Burope. The wiresmiths \mum {nendout theiatin Co s e through small polished holes o pme<. repeating. th until the desired size s 7 hed. In France a cnmpduv o edrawers mmd pu\mu: t and in Londonin the tl\ele Was an in rated companyof iredrawers ml he Ar nd 1 ery of Drawing and 1<|memnn :w o mott was Almcxudn ll.lh\ amo Lov dra o ket thi e hud Lhe o Lmb bLfol the ulmmons in London Br arlies bu,n discovered dates from abou e led to believe that metal wir ime previous to this date atever time the wire took the place of bamboo, the metal wa e same way as the ve"eubh m.;mum had lm muLul wire continued to make impressions of the per, l&,pw] wcing lines left by the lnml)n(l mold ich had preced ed the wire-covere molds 101 many centuries There is a «vou unmo n in the distance bcL\vcm the chain line and also in th mumber of laid lines to the inch in pa pers made o cither Llu. A ‘%ecubu stalk molds or the viremolds, Th paper made on the bamboo surface had coarse laid lines and th lines were umuy widely spaced. \x I\eu mcm e mLm:]ucc the chain lines became somwlnL clo paper was more un res 1 mowumly i the rib of the malds than was puss\ e e baz plat 2, b and ¢, will be seen two forms of early chain line and th lmpmss)ons they loft m the This type of lucm by early wire-mold style shown in plate 2, d, wa adopte Bk nnnusulh ater when lighter wires came into us Until the middl cantisy Ui dhasuTinsa iod o laced or wired directly to tm wooden ribs of the mold, which cause the pulp to lie hmm along each i L chain line in the shee of paper made thereon. (n. so ribs and the wire in pr conn in pl. 3.) Tlns hoayinees i motivonbl "} paper is held to the light. From this slight mark of distinctio h of paper was mada before the midil o course, molds are made at the presT o v.h.u.\cte istic. A sheet with this stamp o dietinctio handmade paper is termed < antique laid," but th Diital image © 2004 Marriot Libary, University of Utah. Al righs reserved |