Description
The patterns of marble stone have inspired the decoration of buildings and interior design since the antiquity. Marbling started to be used for decorating paper in Japan in the 12th century and Spaniards brought the technique to Europe. Over the centuries, it has been most popular in bookbinding – marbled paper became a valued covering material mainly for book covers, replacing expensive leather and parchment. Marbled paper that was originally handmade started to be mass-produced industrially in the first half of the 19th century
The calendar album of the UT library presents the feather, peacock, bouquet, vein, stone and fantasy patterns of marbled paper from books dating back to the 18th and 19th century. The overleaf of each calendar page briefly describes the works from the collection of the library the exquisite design originates from
