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| Title | Modern 20th c. marbled paper, Wide comb drawn with French Curl pattern |
| Artist | Guyot, Don |
| Studio Name | Colophon Hand Bindery |
| Place of Production | United States -- Washington (State) -- Seattle |
| Date | 1978 |
| Descriptive Notes | Wolfe: Wide comb drawn with French curl pattern.
Muira: Arch with Snail marble. The pattern is created by starting with a Wide comb base then either a comb or a stylus would have been used to draw through the bath leaving bath-length lines. Finally, the stylus or comb would be used to draw in the curls.
This sample is a second.
The primary colors for this example are red and grey.
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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 | Wide comb
Arch
Peigne d'Arc
Bogen
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| Secondary Pattern Type | French Curl
Snail
Curl
Escargot
Tourniquet
Coquille
Schnecken
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| Object Type | Paper;Marbled paper |
| Physical Description | 12 x 9 cm. |
| References | Wolfe plate XXIII 10 (Wide comb), XXIV 13-18 (French curl)
Muira pg 91 (Arch), 76-77 (Snail) |
| 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-mp99a |
| 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. |
