The front cover of the rare book with the text "Hough's American Woods Part I"
This month's feature is Volume 1 of Romeyn B. Hough's American Woods.
Categories:
Archival Materials
Keywords:
Books
Close up image of a reddish brown tapa cloth sample focused on the material's texture
This month's feature is tapa cloth made in Honduras by the Xicaque, also called the Tolupan people.
Categories:
Paper Fibers/Pre Paper
Keywords:
Bark Cloth
Steel foundry type featuring print and cursive letters arranged in four rows
This month's feature is a set of decorative steel foundry type from 1959.
Categories:
Tools
Keywords:
Letterpress
Ream Wrapper image of Pot Paper Mill
This month's feature is a ream wrapper reproduction by Dard Hunter and Dard Hunter II.
Categories:
Decorative Papers
Keywords:
Dard Hunter
Wire cutting pliers surrounded by wire letters used for watermarking
This month's feature is a watermark tool and some small wire figures used to create watermarks on molds.
Categories:
Tools
Keywords:
Tools
Round woodblock with Chinese characters in concentric circles.
This month's feature is a wood-block used for Chinese ceremonial paper and collected in the early 1930's; this particular wood-block is used for printing spirit money, also called joss paper.
Categories:
Tools
Keywords:
Woodblock
Three small Indian mica paintings arranged in a row. The first painting features an Indian man dressed in white squatting in profile facing toward the left of the page. He is shining boots and has a red and pink curtain and a green trunk behind him. The middle image features an Indian man dressed in white standing on a navy and light blue striped floor next to a round table set for dinner. The third images is an Indian man in a similar pose to the first image. He is shining boots under a tree

This month’s Artifact of the Month is a collection of Indian mica paintings (A#1993.005.641.A-O).

Categories:
Decorative Papers
Keywords:
Ephemera