asian fan
This month’s Artifact of the Month exhibit showcases a Japanese Kyo uchiwa fan, which is a flat fan that does not open.
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3-D Objects
Keywords:
Artist
Harrison Elliott making paper
This month's Artifact of the Month, a photograph of handmade paper expert Harrison Elliott (1879-1954) examining a sheet of handmade paper, is (un)coincidentally connected to the museum's current exhibit - which is all about the man himself!
Categories:
Paper Fibers/Pre Paper
Keywords:
Books, Handmade
Japanese washi figurines
Japanese washi figurines from the 1998
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3-D Objects
Keywords:
Washi
three cards. A big pink one with two smaller white ones with hints of violet and blue

This month’s featured Artifact of the Month is a selection of embossed lace papers collected by Jonathan King, a prominent Victorian stationer, that dates from the 1860s (#6090, 6095, 6096). King was famous for building elaborately layered cards using lace paper and illustrations known as scraps. Intricate patterns, flowers, cherubs, and young women like those portrayed in these cards were popular subjects for Valentine’s Day.

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Decorative Papers
Keywords:
Embossing
Post Magazone
This month’s Artifact of the Month, the last of 2020, is all about a year-in-review; it is an original Saturday Evening Post from 1954.
Categories:
Paper Fibers/Pre Paper
Keywords:
Books, Letterpress
Historical Account of the Substances book
This month’s artifact is from our permanent exhibit; it is a book printed in 1800 entirely from straw. Historical Account of the Substances Which Have Been Used to Describe Events and to Convey Ideas from the Earliest Date to the Invention of Paper by Matthis Koops.
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Archival Materials, Paper Fibers/Pre Paper
Keywords:
Artist's Books, Books, Handmade
The cover of the book with royal blue detailing
This month’s Artifact of the Month is from our Rare Book Library: Wirecloth for Paper Mills, published in 1925 by Rai Wire Works of the French Compagnie de Général D'électricité (aka the General Electricity Company).  
Categories:
Tools
Keywords:
Tools
An image of a dandy roll on a pedestal
This month’s artifact is a dandy roll.
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Tools
Keywords:
Tools
An image of the calendar for August 1918 featuring a boy and a wheelbarrow illustration
This month’s artifact is a calendar for August 1918, printed by the Marchbanks Press
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Archival Materials
Keywords:
Ephemera
Assorted Receipts from Thomas Riche's accounts
This month’s Artifact of the Month is from a collection of historical merchant receipts.
Categories:
Archival Materials
Keywords:
Correspondence