marble paper

The reason, he says, is Duval's faithful use, like his own, of natural dyes and water to marble paper.

Before Brasher or I had a notion of what it was he intended to do he covered it with a heavy marble paper weight.

The tight, stylized, characteristically Islamic interplay of form and color made marble paper ideal for the flyleafs of leather-bound, handwritten books.

In 1844 he was selling "Improved Marble papers" (i.e. wallpaper), and calling himself 'Marine Decorator to her Majesty'.

With it there was a dog-eared, marble paper covered book of pencilled manuscript, now smudged and faded, labelled P. C. CARTER.

And over the seas in shrewd Yankee America, Benjamin Franklin insisted in 1776 that the $25 bill of the new Revolutionary currency be edged with inimitable marble paper to prevent its being forged.

In addition to the shop, Kenny's also has a bindery producing and rebinding books in buckram, chieftain goat and aniline calf lined with hand-made marble paper, at costs ranging from about $175 to $500.

"There's not a single Italian text on the subject, although most marble paper is now made in Florence," said Gabriele Giannini, 43, who runs the cheery shop that looks rather like a children's nursery with its prevailing pastel, marbled-paper colors.