To brighten things up
Subtitle: the Schmoller Collection of decorated papers
By: Tanya Schmoller ; with a foreword by Mirjam Foot
Contributors: Foot, Mirjam; Stubley, Keith, book designer; Foot, Mirjam, writer of supplementary textual content; Schmoller Collection of Decorated Papers; JW Northend (Firm); Fine Book Bindery (Firm)
Publisher: Manchester Metropolitan University
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9781905476275
Subjects: Exhibitions; Decorative paper; Collectors and collecting; Marbling (Bookbinding); Paste papers; Bookbinding; Paper bindings; Manchester Metropolitan University. Library; Manchester Metropolitan University
Description: "For over fifty years Tanya Schmoller and her late husband Hans have built up on the world's great collections of decorated papers, a collection that is now housed in the special collections department of the Sir Kenneth Green Library at Manchester Metropolitan University"--Book description, Manchester Metropolitan University.

"To accompany an exhibition ... held within the Schmoller Collection of Decorated Papers in the Special Collections Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University. The book ... presents a visual introduction to the Schmoller Collection, illustrated with some of the author's favourite examples and supported with discussions of the historical context and the techniques used in decorated paper making ... includes chapters on gold-embossed papers, marbling, block printing, machine printing, paste papers, miscellaneous techniques including Batik (or Java) and air brushed papers and a selection of Oriental papers"--Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections website, viewed on September 9, 2014.
Notes: "Published in parallel with a major exhibition"--Preface.

"Five hundred copies of this book have been published by Manchester Metropolitan University during February 2008, 250 in hardback 250 is softback"--Colophon.