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Show TH PAPERMAKIN MOUL 22 In 1790, John Phipps, an Englishman, patented a process fo teaching writing and drawing by means of watermarked lines i paper. The specification is dated August 215t 1790, and reads method to fcilitate the acquirement of several of the useful an No. 14 An early modern laid paper with extremely fine laid-line polite arts by an casy, effectual, and expeditious manner of teaching writing and drawing, which is done by fabricating the moulds wove or washing wires, or other wire on which shects of paper ar e, s that every sheet shall come out of or from them properl :\d'lp(cd for the purposes, when finished by the maker in the usua manner, by having the lines made and the copics sct for writing and the outlines and sketch for drawing, by what is called th watermark, for the learner to trace over." This absurd method fo the teaching of writing and drawing was but little used, and th interest in the novel idea lies chiefly in the fact that this was th Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |