Re: [BKARTS] Query re tooling

[Douglas Sanders <dsanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is it possible that what you are describing is generally known as Dutch
Gilt or Brocade paper?  Rather than being tooled, they were created with
rollers/presses.  I think there are other techniques where an
adhesive/paste was printed first, then leaf applied on top.  Info can be
found at: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/dt/dt1131.html
 
The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) has a
very large collection of such papers.  Perhaps they have a catalog
available for purchase.

Douglas Sanders
Conservator
Indiana Historical Society
> 
> I am a new member, with a query on tooling on linen and paper (not 
> leather). On 17th C embroidered boxes, it is common to find tooled 
> linen or paper lining. Sometimes this is blind tooled, sometimes gold.

> In one example, there seems to have been some kind of printing process

> used, with a thick resinous ink and fleuron-like stamps.

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