Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
Suzanne Karr Schmidt
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Five layers: the earth, the heavens, the clock... Come to the @rcpmuseum.bsky.social lecture evening on 23 June to find out how this 16th century device works, and take home your own working replica! history.rcp.ac.uk/event/body-k...
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Marbled Masterpiece!
This 17th c. German calligraphic copy book by a Wilhelm Schwartz is almost entirely written on gorgeously experimental marbled paper!
@newberrylibrary.bsky.social VAULT Wing MS folio ZW 647 .S398 1/?
Can't quite follow your CIRCULAR logic...
1736 calligraphy book with test stylus designs in front and back!
@newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Vault Wing MS folio ZW 747 .T562) More pictures here:
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And now with an updated catalog entry the actually mentions marbled paper!
Interestingly, at least one instance of the paper is marbled... ON BOTH SIDES!
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Islamic influence?
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Pierre Woeiriot engraving of an unusually compact bunch of French nobles, c. 1591.
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(Wing ZP 5471 .91)
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt
Suzanne Karr Schmidt
This title page is the only one not on paper, though vellum likely would shrink from the marbling process... All that gold's a fair trade though!
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One more artistic void!
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When the musical chairs music stops
Into the VOIDS
My favorite pages are probably these where shaped paper was used to create floral and other patterns within the marbled background!
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