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| Other authors / contributors: | Leicester Polytechnic, degree granting institution.
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| Provenance: | Binding: Half brown publisher's cloth over boards with white paper and gilt inlaid vertical line; title in gilt on spine. Slipcase of brown publisher's cloth over boards.
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| Notes: | "BA (Hons) degree in graphic design, Leicester Polytechnic 1900."
Department: Leicester School of Printing, Southfields College.
Advisor: Trevor Hickman.
30 illustrations, including mounted samples of papyrus, parchment and vellum, linter, hand-made paper from Wookey Hole Mill, recycled paper, paper made from vegetable fibers, and decorative papers
Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-88).
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| Summary: | "How easy it is to take familiar things for granted. What other material is so common in our everyday lives as paper, in all its many forms. The aim of this Extended Essay is to give an insight into the History of Papermaking in general, and in particular hand-made paper. This began when the accomplishments of races were passed down purely by 'word of mouth'. Subsequently history became visually recorded, and eventually mechanically logged. The main forerunners of paper were papyrus and parchment and their origins, the processes by which they were made and their uses, will be described in the first chapter. Chapter two will explain how paper was originally made and the significant changes that evolved over the years will be traced chronologically, up to the time that machine-made papers were first produced. The third chapter looks at the modern methods of producing hand-made paper and how they compare with the advancing technology of machine-made paper. To conclude, the final chapter will discuss the future of paper. Such questions will be asked as 'Is paper necessary?' and 'Can we live without paper?' To find the answers to these questions you may like to consider what was said in the first paragraph of this introduction"--Page 9.
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