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Wiggins Teape’s Tradition of Sending Primroses to its Customers in Spring – Andrew Jewell
The background to a quaint old business custom started by John Horsburgh of Hele Mill near Exeter, and continued by Wiggins Teape following their purchase of the mill. The article also contains a brief history of the mill.
6 pages, 4 figures
The Papermaking Drawings of Willem Bastiaan Tholen (1860-1931) – Peter Bower
Tholen was a minor Dutch artist who made a series of beautiful drawings and paintings of the interior of Dutch paper mills between 1898 and 1904. They show mill equipment, men at work, and various working practices.
10 pages, 23 figures
How many sheets in an Eighteenth-Century Ream? – Geoffrey Day
What at first appears to be a relatively straightforward question, turns into something much more complex when the papers making up the ream are graded as ‘good’, ‘seconds’, and ‘dividers’. Values of between 476 and 632 (in total) can be found, according to whose authority is to be believed.
4 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Paper Mill Blaze at Penicuik: Four Men Injured When Fighting Fire – anon
An account of a mill fire of 1938, describing the conflagration, and the attempts by various fire brigades to the battle the blaze, during which two firefighters were injured.
2 pages, 1 figure
The NEWS
From Q116 The NEWS became an integral part of the journal, rather than an insert. This is The NEWS No.135.
4 pages
Simon Schubert’s Folded Paper
Cologne artist Simon Schubert creates intricate images of stately homes and palaces simply by folding plain white sheets of paper. In this instance, he has created an intricate artwork made by folding a sheet of Fabriano drawing paper to produce a staircase
1 page, 1 figure
Paper Making in the Dominions: Part 3: New Zealand
An article published in a trade magazine from 1924 describing a British Empire Exhibition, detailing the industry in four of its major dominions; this is the third in the series (the previous two having been published in Q129 and Q130), and highlights the industry in New Zealand. It has been supplemented with some up-to-date statistics showing how the indigenous industry has changed over a century.
2 pages, 2 figures
Book Reviews – Peter Bower
The Flawed Genius of William Playfair: The Story of the Father of Statistical Graphics by David R. Bellhouse
Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000 by Mindell Dubansky (with an Introduction by Sidney Berger)
In Memoriam: Thomas J. Tait OBE)
Obituary of a long-term BAPH member, who ran Inverurie Paper Mill until it was sold in 1989.
In Memoriam: Barry Read
Obituary of a well-known character from the UK paper industry, who was an honorary member of BAPH and who (over a number of years) helped us gain access to several paper mills for visits prior to our annual conference meetings.
In Memoriam: Geof Nuttall
Obituary of another well-known character who joined BAPH just prior to the millennium. Geof worked in a number of mills before becoming a consultant; and in 2022 he was awarded the Paper Industry Gold Medal.
3 pages, 5 figures
Milestones of Early Paper Industrialisation: Insights from The Patents of Papermaking’s First Decade – Michael Stanyon
An article casting a look over a number of early patents pertaining to mechanised paper manufacture, and also to Dickinson’s patent for gun cartridge paper which used wool as a means of preventing the material from smouldering in the gun barrel, so causing an explosion.
5 pages, 5 figures
The Quarterly Index Nos 125-128 – Daven Chamberlain
The index for 2023 is arranged in eight categories: Articles by author; Articles by title; Book reviews; General index; Illustrations; Papermakers; Paper mills; Watermarks. The Watermarks index is further divided into those that are illustrated and those that are mentioned in the text.
8 pages
