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Chinese Ceremonial Papers

Many hundreds of varieties of prayer sheets used to be produced by specialist ma-chang printers all over China. Many of the limited range made today are the cheapest offset-litho jobs on the cheapest machine-made papers, but the designs still imitate the original woodblock prints.

Modern Taiwanese sheets of cash, made from recycled paper, sold very cheaply by weight in Taipei.

Mock money and other ceremonial papers for religious ceremonies will be gathered in "bowls" of crude papers, usually made of a mixture of rice-straw and bamboo fibers.

The simplest form of mock money is made traditionally with thin layers of tinfoil affixed to the center of a small piece of bamboo paper, although in contemporary production the cheapest grades of machine-made paper will be used instead, and in Taiwan and Malaysia metallic inks may be used instead of tinfoil.

Here's a piece of mock money in traditional colors with auspicious designs, and tinfoil brushed over with a dye from the pagoda tree to make it resemble gold.

Contemporary Taiwanese ceremonial paper.

Another variety of gold mock money, with inscriptions and symbols for good fortune building up the design, usually still quite well printed from woodblocks on fairly good quality paper, but sometimes now mass-produced by offset lithography.

Contemporary ceremonial paper printed letterpress on a stout machine-made paper in Hong Kong. The yellow coloring might have been brushed on by hand, but otherwise production of these attractive sheets has been mechanized completely.

At the Feast of Hungry Ghosts many large sheets of paper with pictures of all the clothes one's ancestor could need are burned. Although images of the paraphernalia of modern life like cell phones and computers might be printed on these papers, the clothing is always of traditional style.

Red paper envelopes with good luck symbols have been used for many years to enclose gifts of money made at New Year. They may be found wherever any ceremonial papers are sold; today usually with elaborate and eye-catching gold-stamping.

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The examples shown here are original paper samples included in Roderick Cave's (1935-2019) two-part article on "Ceremonial Papers of the Chinese" published in Matrix 12 (Winter 1992, pp. 51-66) and Matrix 13 (Winter 1993, pp. 161-177), printed at the John and Rosalind Randle’s Whittington Press in Risbury, Herefordshire, England.

In these articles, Cave, a noted print historian, librarian, and educator, discusses the history, manufacturing, printing, distribution, and uses of Chinese ceremonial papers used in rituals, celebrations, and festivals associated with the gods and the ancestors.

Our copies of Matrix are a donation from our friend Jerry Buff.

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More marbling today. It's been a very marbled week over here.

From: Weisse, Franz. The Art of Marbling. North Hills, Pa : Bird & Bull Press, 1980.

Z271.3.M37 W45 1980

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Magenta stir marbled paper. Marbled with black, white and silver in a Suminagashi-like structures, bright magenta duo stir and metallic old gold spots on top. Only 10 sheets available! Signed and dated. Base paper is red, 80 gsm, long grain. Sheet size is 66 x 94 cm (26" x 37"). Will be available in the next release - July 24th at 12 UTC.

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The pretty books have it so easy. This decorative paper covers a 1750 French book on mineral waters.

Essai analitique sur les eaux de Bussang, 1750.

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more paste papers!

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I decorated a folder to keep some of my short stories in.

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My most recent batch of handmade gift bows

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The diagram for the classic Origami Goat, with a twist to make its horns curve ! It's from this video by by Origami Word, but it seems to be a pretty old/intemporal design that a lot of people have made. I could not find a diagram online so I made one.

(If you make her in yellow/orangy-yellow, then decorate her with red ribbons, you can make your own origami gävlebocken ! )

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Graphic designer and decorative-paper collector Hans Schmoller's article "An Italian Paperchase," published in Matrix 5, Winter 1985, pp. 1-14, celebrates the decorated papers of three Italian women, Flavia Farina Cini, Eleonora dei Conti Gallo, and Pia Vitali.

The patterns shown here were made from woodblocks with a paste made chiefly from starch and dextrin, colored with a wide variety of pigments. The first image is the emblem of the workshop, Laboratorio Italiano Manifattura Artistica (L. I. M. A.), a play on the village where it is located, Lima, Italy. It is also known as Laboratorio Marcelliano after nearby San Marcello. This is the workshop where Flavia Farina Cini spent her career.

Hans Schmoller (1916-1985) was the highly influential head of typography and design at Penguin Books for almost 30 years (1949-1976). He and his wife Tanya (1918-2016), who was the personal assistant to Allen Lane, the co-founder of Penguin Books, were both avid collectors of decorated papers from around the world. Hans Schmoller was able to collect enough original samples of work by Farina Cini and Conti Gallo to include in the 718 copies of Matrix 5, printed at John and Rosalind Randle’s Whittington Press in Risbury, Herefordshire, England.

The work of Pia Vitali could only be shown in a b&w photograph, along with other photographs of work by Farina Cini and and Conti Gallo. Our copy is another donation from our friend Jerry Buff.

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Some lovely tiny treasures.

From: A collection of historical decorated papers : a miniatur book with forty three historical decorated paper samples, Nedim Sönmez, 2024.

Z271.3.E53 S66 2024

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Stained Glass Nintendo Window Hangers made by RetroSixtyStore

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