The historical significance of researching the technological development of european paper with and without watermarks

• Anna-Grethe Rischel ^[1]
  1. [1] National Museum of Denmark
• Localización: Actas del XII Congreso Internacional Historia del Papel en la Península Ibérica, Vol. 2, Tomo 2, 2017 (Tomo II), págs. 13-24
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Papermaking spreads from the Iberian Peninsula to the surrounding countries, where new tools and technology is developed in Italy to increase the production. In Fabriano Arabian starch sizing is replaced by gelatine sizing, hand pounding of the rags by stamping mills and moulds with loose screen of reeds by fixed metal wire screens with watermarks. Julius Wiesner registers through microscopic analysis of Arabian and European paper these data. In my analysis of the development of European and early Danish paper with and without watermarks I have followed in Wiesner’s footsteps by observation of the condition of the rag fibres and the traces of tools and technology used. Without watermarks information about the provenance of European paper is missing, but all other data about the fibre materials and the technology used are to be found through macroscopic & microscopic analysis of the paper.