Marbled paper with repeating crescent pattern in red and cream – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Marbled paper with repeating crescent pattern in red and cream, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Marbled paper with repeating crescent pattern in red and cream
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Marbled paper is a decorative technique in which pigments float on a thickened water bath and are combed or drawn into patterns before a sheet is laid on top to take the design. This example uses a repeating crescent motif in red and cream, a comb-and-drag arrangement often seen in European bookbinding from the 17th through 19th centuries, when marbled endpapers and covers were prized for their individuality. Each sheet was unique, since the floating colors never repeated exactly, which made marbled paper a practical and personal mark of a hand-bound volume. Look closely at the edges of the crescents to see the fine, feathered lines left by the tool that shaped them.
| Original scan | 6,454 × 4,834 px · prints to 22 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 00003u |
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