" Diderot Encyclopaedia and
D' Alembert, 1765 "
- The technique
of the marbling saw the day in XIIe century in the East. It was
then spread in XVe century in the Middle East, then in Occident
in XVIIe century. The development of the Western tradition was largely
influenced by a request for new decorations in bindings. One then
saw appearing certain popular design of which made the glory of
the decades. Bearing different names, the same design could be carried
out simultaneously in several countries.
- In News-France,
the marbled papers of the books , were especially brought by monks,who
came from France, England and Italy. In the bookbinding here to
XVIIe, XVIIIe and XIXe centuries raise of the same traditions. However
one is unaware if they all were carried out here.
- It is in XVIIe
century that Europe discovered the charm of Turkish papers. The
Marbler of ottoman tradition deposited colors on a made gelatine
of a thick sap extracted from a arbustre of the family of the astragalus.
He thus manufactured his coloured papers of a granulous aspect.
For their part, Europeans prepared their mucilage starting from
the carragaheen, alga of the littoral of the Atlantic and North
Sea. The consistency of mucilage thus obtained made it possible
to carry out with the comb of the continuous and clear lines.
- The workman
marbled paper with five basic colors and their derivatives : lampblack,
yellow ochre, indigo blue, red prepared with wood of Brazil and
the white made with water and gall.
- To XIXe century,
progress of chemistry offered a new range of colors : the Guimet
overseas, the green and the yellow chromium plate, the green emerald,
the Prussian blue, the English green. That made it possible to the
marblers to bring up to date and modernize old design.