Agenda 2024 - 12-month - softcover, ultra, day-at-a-time - brocaded paper - bavarian wild flower | Paperblanks

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• Our Brocaded Paper series celebrates a curated set of antique paper samples collected and housed in Germany.
• This design, Bavarian Wild Flower, showcases the colourful floral motif archetypal of the decorative arts in that region during the late 17th century.
• With our Bavarian Wild Flower design we spotlight the underappreciated art of creating decorative paper.
• For centuries, leather and textiles had been the go-to materials in all areas of life.
• This changed toward the end of the 17th century as pioneering Bavarian papermakers brought spectacular new finishing methods to the decorative arts.
• This design represents a particularly dazzling example of the art form, showcasing a range of techniques that were employed by master papermakers Our Bavarian Wild Flower design is a reproduction of a material known as “Dutch gilt paper.” One distinct feature of this type of paper is the splotches of colour which serves as a backdrop to the refined patterns created using embossing and gilding techniques.
• Although most of this type of decorative paper was actually manufactured in the German cities of Bavaria, it was the Dutch merchants who ruled the currents of European trade.
• This trade system included paper distribution, which is why German-made paper came to be known as Dutch.
• Before the onset of the industrial age, techniques such as gilding, embossing, relief printing and brocading (weaving raised patterns on fabrics) were the primary means of embellishing decorative materials.
• Although these methods are still employed today, modern interior design makes much more limited use of heavy draperies, rich leather wall coverings and gilded surfaces than did pre-industrial designers.