The Quarterly No. 65 – January 2008
St Omer Conference, 2006
Stoneywood Mill 1950 – Ian Hendry
Comprehensive overview of paper making and the running of a paper mill in the 1950s. Details are given of the raw materials used, pulp preparation, paper making, and finishing of the paper. Management, ancillary operations, housing and working conditions.
11 pages, illustrated
List of Scottish Papermakers, 1837 – transcribed by Richard Hills
Transcription taken from an 1837 hand-written original in the Museum of Science and Industry.
1 page
In Pursuit of Rags, Ropes and Mill Waste – Mike Malley
Analysis of the sources and availability of the raw materials for paper making in Lancashire in the nineteenth century.
5 pages, illustrated, tables
A Watermarked Paper Leaf in a 1360s North-East Cheshire Roll at the National Archives, Kew – John Harrop
Detailed examination of a leaf of primitive paper incorporated into a roll of six parchment membranes.
2 pages, illustrated
A Methodical Visual System to Create Matching Infills for Missing Areas in Works of Art on Paper by Dyeing Cotton Rag Papermaking Pulp Different Shades of Yellow, Red and Blue – Alan Buchanan
Paper conservators frequently require to infill missing areas of works of art. Present methods involve infilling with a sympathetic paper, a repair tissue or pulp, all of which usually have to be toned to match the surrounding area. This article's hypothesis is that cotton rag paper pulp can be dyed red, yellow or blue. Predetermined amounts of the dry dyed pulp can then be mixed to produce the desired colour.
9 pages, colour illustrations, tables
Marbling Paper – BJ Sanson
Account of the history and techniques of marbling paper first published in The Paper-Maker and British Paper Trade Journal, 1924.
2 pages
History of Paper Test Instrumentation Part 7: Tactile Property Testers – Daven Chamberlain
The continuation of this comprehensive series, this time detailing testers designed to test tactile properties. Tactile properties are promoted actively in the selling of certain paper products, for example, tissue. Such properties have been given a variety of names: rattle, handle, feel, softness, hardness etc. Tactile properties are among the most esoteric that paper scientists have tried to characterise.
5 pages, illustrated
Soap Paper: Its Manufacture and Curiosities – James Scott
James Scott enthuses on the properties, practicalities and production of soap paper, perhaps to be regarded as the forerunner of the present day 'wet-wipe'. First published in The Paper-Maker and British Paper Trade Journal, 1915.
2 pages, illustrated
Vacuum or Suction Boxes – part 1 – J Melrose Arnott
A fascinating history of these important additions to papermachines first published in The Paper-Maker and British Paper Trade Journal, 1922. Due to its length the article is to be re-printed in two parts.
8 pages, illustrated
Shakespear and the Paper Trade – Graham Arnold
Humorous short article on the search for, sometimes somewhat tenuous, references to paper making in Shakespeare's writings.
1 page
Correction to Branthwaite Paper Mill, Cumberland
Corrections to errors in references in this article in The Quarterly, No 64, October 2007.
1 page
An Unreliable History of the British Paper Industry – J Edward Cummins
An alternative slant on British papermaking history from a member of Messrs Strong, Hanbury & Co, published first in that company's Paper and Progress and re-published in The Paper-Maker and British Paper Trade Journal, 1925.
1 page
Storing of Moist Wood Pulp – F Wolesky
A short article from The Paper-Maker and British Paper Trade Journal, 1896, highlighting sources of contamination that could give rise to deterioration of pulp, and so to paper, which hitherto may not have been considered.
1 page
The Quarterly No. 66 – April 2008
Papermaking – The Route to Antiquity: The Evans Family and the Dickinson Fortunes – Michael Stanyon
At the present time when all manufacturing industry is in decline it is hard for us to realise that there was once a great deal of money to be made from papermaking and stationery conversion. This is the story of one family, that of John Evans, nephew and son-in-law to John Dickinson and father of an extraordinary family.
5 pages, illustrated
The French Paper Industry in the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries – H Alibaux
Short history of French papermaking prepared from an abridged translation from Le Papier, subsequently published in The Paper Trade Journal and The Paper-Maker and British Paper Trade Journal, 1927.
3 pages
The Story of Cross & Bevan: Part 2 – The Partnership – Trevor Dean
Continuation of the history of the partnership responsible for the discovery of Viscose. The author attempts to put the invention into perspective with other artificial fibres as well as identify some other achievements of Cross & Bevan which have been overshadowed by viscose. Part one is in The Quarterly, No 62.
9 pages, illustrated
Excise Office List, London, 8 October 1816 – transcribed by Richard Hills
Transcription from a photocopy of a 1816 hand-written original list of papermills and papermakers.
6 pages
Prepared Tints for Pencilling: A Report on 19th Century Prepared Tinted Drawing Papers – John O'Neill
Examination of an unusual type of coated paper, most likely British. It is a purpose-made drawing paper manufactured with a white coating on the recto side only, onto which has been printed a thin coloured layer, forming the background for the drawing.
7 pages, colour illustrations
History of Paper Test Instrumentation Part 8: Dimensional Stability Testers – Daven Chamberlain
The continuation of this comprehensive series. This part examining the dimensional instability of paper and the instruments developed to test the two main effects: lateral changes in dimension and deviation from planarity.
6 pages, illustrated
Watermarks on Northern Letters
This article, which was serialised in The Paper-Maker and British Paper Trade Journal, 1897, lists watermarks found in a large series of letters received in Scotland, principally during the 18th century.
5 pages
The Eilers Pulp Grinder
Short review of this machine taken from The World's Paper Trade Review, 1888.
1 page, illustrated
The Mystery of Dulverton Paper Mill – Brian Luker
Short article examining the available evidence to attempt to resolve two possible locations of this mill.
3 pages, illustrated
Waterproof Paper Shirts
A short informative article detailing an unusual use for paper, first published in The Paper-Maker and British Paper Trade Journal, 1915.
1 page
The Annual Outing, or Wayzgoose Blackmail
Letter to the Editor of The Paper-Maker and British Paper Trade Journal, 1898, complaining of the soliciting of subscriptions by print trade employees to defray expenses on the annual day outing.
1 page
Fireproof Paper: The Advantages of Asbestos – James Scott
Paper made from non-cellulosic fibres is unusual, but not uncommon. This article, published in The Paper-Maker and British Paper Trade Journal, 1912, describes such a material made from asbestos, to be used for activities requiring fireproof properties.
2 pages, illustrated
Description of the Process to be Observed in Making Large Sheets of Paper, in the Chinese Manner, with One Smooth Surface – Mr B Franklin
A short communication sent by Benjamin Franklin, the great American scientist and statesman, to the American Philosophical Society, and was published in The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, 1794. Later republished in the Research Bulletin, 1935.
1 page
The Quarterly No. 67 – July 2008
The Cheshire Roodee Iron Foundry and Paper Mill: A Unique Concern – Mike Malley
History of this unusual combination of businesses on the river Dee from establishment in 1789 to its sale in 1836. Includes an inventory of equipment at the time of the sale.
6 pages, illustrated
British Paper Mills: Byfleet Mill in Surrey – Alan Crocker
Short history of this mill where papermaking had been established by 1673. Papermaking finished in the early eighteenth century but the mill worked with other uses up until the twentieth century.
2 pages, illustrated
Cirencester Conference 2005
Traditional Naxi Papermaking in Baidi, Zhongdian County – Daven Chamberlain
At the Annual Conference in 2005 Professor Roderick Cave showed a video on Naxi papermaking. This article is a prose record of what was contained in the video. It compliments the various other records of Chinese papermaking descriptions published recently in The Quarterly (see No.46, May 2003, No.52, October 2004 & No.56, October 2005) and continues the association's commitment to record and describe papermaking methods and techniques from around the world.
3 pages
Paper for Boydell's Shakespeare – John Krill
Short account of the development of paper for copper-plate printing in the eighteenth century and the choice of paper made by John Boydell for the illustrated Dramatic Works of Shakespeare published in 1791.
4 pages, illustrated
Paper-making in India – George Cecil
Reprint of an article from The Paper-Maker and British Trade Journal, 1901, which paints a very different slant on the early twentieth century Indian paper industry to that usually portrayed. However, it is important to read the comments and opinions in the context of a colonial traveller of the period.
3 pages, illustrated
What Our Mills Are doing. The Present Condition of Trade. Progress All Along the Line.
Sentences on the fortunes, good or bad, of paper mills in the late nineteenth century giving a snapshot of the state of the industry. First published in The Paper Trade Review, 1888. Many of the mills mentioned have yet to be documented properly, the editors would welcome any article on mill histories for publication.
2 pages
Index to The Quarterly Nos 61 – 64 – Terry Wells
The index is arranged in nine categories: Articles by author; Articles by title; Book reviews; General index; Illustrations; Papermakers; Paper mills; Tipped-in paper samples; Watermarks. The Watermarks index is further divided into those that are illustrated and those that are mentioned in the text.
11 pages
Écorché: The Papers Used for a Collection of Drawings by Charles, Edwin and Thomas Landseer and their Circle. – Peter Bower
Detailed examination of papers used by the Landseer brothers for écorché drawings, that is, showing the human or animal figure without skin. The drawings are on thirty six loose and part sheets as well as pages from a partially dismembered sketchbook.
12 pages, illustrated
British Bibliography of Paper History and Watermark Studies No 15, 2007 – Peter Bower
Listing of articles concerned with papermaking published in 2007.
4 pages
Curiosities of Sulphur Paper – James Scott
Another article from a series by James Scott printed in The Paper-Maker and British Paper Trade Journal. This one from 1913 describes a functional paper used as a fumigant, and some of the interesting science behind its active constituent: sulphur.
1 page
A Raincoat of Water-Proof Paper – Walter A Olsen
Letter to the Editor of The Paper-Maker and British Paper Trade Journal, 1898, complaining of the soliciting of subscriptions by print trade employees to defray expenses on the annual day outing.
1 page
The Quarterly No. 68 – October 2008
A Life in Letters: The Papers Used by Mary Delany (1700-1788) for her Correspondence and Other Documents – Peter Bower
This documentation of the papers used by Mary Delany for her correspondence arose as part of the author's research into the papers she used for her collages, the nearly 1000 'paper mosaicks', coloured paper collages of plants of extraordinary beauty, skill and botanical accuracy, now in the British Museum. This research was carried out for the Yale Center for British Art's forthcoming publication Mrs Delany and her Circle, published to accompany an exhibition of the same name, which will open at the yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, in the summer of 2009 and then travel to the Sir John Soane Museum in the autumn of 2009.
24 pages, illustrated
The Warrell Family – Mary Elizabeth Thomas
Warrell family history, of whom the author is a descendant, with an unbroken line of papermakers/printers through seven generations. The study of the two aspects of them as a family and as papermakers gives a unique insight into the working lives of these men and women.
6 pages, illustrated
Audubon's 'The Birds of America' – Tatyana Petukhova
This article describes a study and conservation of two of Audubon's 'The Birds of America' prints. The history of the creation of the book's 'double elephant' publication, its provenance, and the materials, from which the prints had been made, were studied. The focus of this article is on the print's paper, and the conservation of the prints.
7 pages, illustrated
History of Paper Test Instrumentation Part 9: Hand Strength Test Methods and Dry Tensile Property Testers – Daven Chamberlain
The continuation of this comprehensive series. The next few parts will deal with the general subject of strength, one of obvious importance to papermakers and end users alike, and a subject that has attracted development of more instruments than any other.
11 pages, illustrated