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| Title | Modern 20th c. marbled paper, Serpentine pattern |
| Artist | Guyot, Don |
| Studio Name | Colophon Hand Bindery |
| Place of Production | United States -- Washington (State) -- Seattle |
| Date | 1978 |
| Descriptive Notes | Muira: Serpentine pattern
Although Wolfe does not address this pattern as a whole, he does so in pieces (Wide comb and waved).
This Serpentine, according to Muira, was first created in the middle of the 19th century.
The pattern is created by starting with a Turkish base. A comb with one set of teeth is drawn through the bath twice vertically, once in either direction with the second pass halving the first. This step is repeated horizontally. Then the final step is to draw a comb, with one set of teeth set at slightly wider intervals, through the bath once vertically in wavy lines reminiscent of the way in which a snake moves.
This sample is a second.
The primary colors for this orange paper sample are orange, black and green.
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| Collection Notes | This sample is a flat sample from amongst a box of samples Guyot would have used to monitor his inventory and pattern types for his company, Colophon.
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| Paper Process/Medium | Surface application papers -- Marbled papers |
| Prominent Pattern Type | Serpentine
Peigné Serpentin
Gewunden Gekämmter
Waved
Wave
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| Secondary Pattern Type | Wide Comb
Arch
Peigne d'Arc
Bogen
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| Object Type | Paper;Marbled paper |
| Physical Description | 12 x 9 cm. |
| References | Muira pgs 107-109 |
| Digital Collection | Decorated and Decorative Paper Collection
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Book Arts Collection |
| Reference Number | DG-modern-Guyot-mp89a |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from an original sample using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at between 550-600 ppi, saved in TIFF, resized, and imported to JPEG 2000. |
