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- Title
The handmade blue paper project: Application of experimental archaeology methods to study the materiality of Dutch blue paper (1650-1750).
- Authors
Sauvage, Leila; Marie-Noëlle, Grison
- Abstract
This essay explores the materiality of Dutch blue paper (1650-1750), describing the methodology developed at the Moulin du Verger papermill (France). Starting from the visual examination of blue paper objects housed in the Rijksmuseum and the study of written sources, the group of researchers based their experiments at this 16th-century mill, equipped with traditional papermaking stampers, a Hollander cylinder and an immense drying loft. The experiments involved the dyeing and preparation of linen fibres with woad and indigo. The study of written sources revealed how scholars, traders and artists described "Dutch blue paper" and how it compared with its Venetian predecessor. The access to new raw materials (cotton, indigo, logwood) broadened the range of possibilities, while the introduction of the Hollander beater (ca. 1673) improved considerably the efficiency of Dutch papermakers who were able to produce faster and in greater quantity.
- Subjects
EXPERIMENTAL archaeology; PAPERMAKING; PAPER mills; LOGWOOD; INDIGO
- Publication
Yearbook for Dutch Book History / Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis, 2023, Vol 30, p64
- ISSN
1381-0065
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5117/JNB2023.004.GRIS