Overview

This book published by Archetype for the Don Baker Memorial fund is the result of research into the nature abd characteristics of Islamic paper - gleaned through the systematic analysis of over 100 dated samples. Descriptions of the physical characteristics of papers originating from Persia, Syria and Egypt from the 12th to the 19th century provide a means by which papers are compared and contrasted. To place this research into an historical context, the book begins with an overview of the development of papermaking by hand in the Islamic world and examines the impact and spread of the craft throughout Persia and the Middle East - noting its success in relation to other contemporary writing materials and its failure to compete with imported Western papers.

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Author:   Helen Loveday
Publisher:   Archetype Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Archetype Publications Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.280kg
ISBN:  

9781873132036

ISBN 10:   1873132034
Pages:   90
Publication Date:   15 March 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Map of the Timurid Empire Acknowledgements Foreword, by Professor John Carswell Author's Preface Part One: A History of Islamic Papermaking Chapter One 'Writing Materials Prior to the Advent of Paper' Papyrus Parchment Chapter Two 'Papermaking in the Islamic World' The Transition from Papyrus and Parchment to Paper Sources of Early Paper Samples The Decline of Papermaking in the Islamic World Chapter Three 'The Nature of Paper and its Production' The Nature, Properties and Characteristics of Paper The Materials and Techniques of the Papermaker Chapter Four 'Qualitative Characteristics of Islamic Paper' Determination of Quality Grade Colour Size of Sheet Watermarks Part Two: A Systematic Analysis of Persian and Syro-Egyptian Paper Chapter Five 'Protocol for Paper Classification' Chapter Six 'Summary of Findings' Persian Paper Syro-Egyptian Paper A Comparison of Persian and Syro-Egyptian Papers Chapter Seven 'Conclusions' Towards a Paper Typology Appendix 'Table of Results' Bibliography

Reviews

'[The book] provides for the first time in English a concise and scholarly study of papermaking in the Islamic world derived largely from published sources in English, and informed by the writer's professional knowledge of papermaking... it embodies the fruits of meticulous research into the papers of a corpus of Persian and Arabic manuscripts which provide the basis for a methodology for the study, classification and identification of the papers of manuscripts from other Asian cultures.' The Journal of the British Association of Paper Historians 39, July 2001:40 'The first part of this book will be useful for anyone interested in the history of Islamic papermaking. Loveday's summary of the documentary sources is compact, informative, and readable...Paper conservators and paper historians will be especially interested in the second part, on analyzing paper...Loveday has used her knowledge and experience to make her analysis as consistent and objective as possible.' Martha Smith, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C. for the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, Spring 2002/Vol 41/No. 1, pp 97-98.

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