decorated paper

Plain papers decorated by various means, which might include trough-marbling, stencilling, sprinkling, hand-colouring, block-printing, etc. Such papers were used in books as endleaves, covering materials, linings of boxes and sometimes in secondary uses such as spine linings. They were also used as wrapping paper or as a ground for printing and calligraphy.

i utgangspunktet et ufarget stykke papir som forskjønnes gjennom bruk av forskjellige prosesser som farging, sprenging, preging, blokktrykking, stensilering, marmorering