Paper showing the pattern of vertical wire-marks and horizontal chain-lines produced by the papermaker's mould during its manufacture.
Paper made in or after the traditional manner. Held to the light, such paper will display distinct vertical or chain lines at wide spacing and narrowly spaced horizontal laid lines
Made using a mold covered with wires to form a distinctive grid pattern of "laid lines"-horizontal wires placed closely together, and "chain lines"-more widely spaced vertical wires. This pattern transfers to the final sheet of paper and becomes and essential identifying feature.
Paper in which the fibers form a visible pattern of parallel lines.
Paper having a series of parallel lines which simulate the look of handmade papers.
Paper which when held up to the light shows a series of parallel lines caused by the weave of the dandy roll.
Hand made paper with the characteristic parallel grid pattern (the impression from the interwoven mould or matrix used in the paper making process). Imitated in machine- produced paper via the cylindrical "dandy roll".
Papers with a "grid" pattern in the sheet, resulting from the pulp resting against wires on the papermaking mould screen. A rougher finish in which parallel lines are impressed in the paper. It gives the overall look of narrowly spaced horizontal lines with lighter vertical lines placed wide apart.
writing paper having a watermark of fine lines running across the grain
Paper with a prominent pattern of ribbed lines in the finished sheet. It is customary for the laid lines to run across the width and the chain lines to run from head to foot. The mould used to make laid paper has numerous narrowly spaced laid wires that are woven together by very thin wires or threads called chain lines.
When held to the light, the paper shows alternate light and dark crossed lines.
Paper with distinctive lines running parallel through the entire sheet.
A type of paper, typically hand-made, that has a visible grid pattern over the entire sheet. The wire screen on which the paper is made produces the pattern.
light parallel lines seen in paper when held up to light.
The closely "lined" appearance in the finish of writing and printing papers created during manufacture by a dandy roll.
showing the characteristic parallel wire marks of early papers made by hand in a mesh frame.
Laid paper is any paper that has a type of watermark that covers the whole sheet and consists of closely spaced parallel lines in one direction and heavier, more widely spaced lines perpendicular to them; these are the wide marks of the screen from the roll or mold on which the paper is made. Paper that is not laid is called wove paper; a wove finished is produced on a screen so tightly meshed that the wire marks are not visible.
Handmade paper made by depositing cloth fibers suspended in water onto a wire grid. The grid leaves an impression on the paper, which may be seen when looking though the paper at a bright light. Most maps before about 1800 are printed on laid paper. See also chain marks, laid lines, and wove paper.
Paper with a pattern of parallel lines at equal distances, giving a ribbed effect.
Laid paper is characterized by faint, closely spaced, horizontal and vertical lines caused by the wire racks on which the paper pulp has been dried. These lines are visible when the paper is held up to the light. Laid paper is usually made from linen or rags.
Printing or writing paper with a ribbed appearance.
One of the two basic types of paper used in stamp printing. Laid paper is distinguished from wove paper by the presence of thin, parallel lines visible when the paper is held to light. The lines are usually a few millimeters apart. See also Batonne.
(papier verge, Buttenpapier) A type of handmade paper made out of rags and laid on a screen. All early European paper is of this type. Hold it to the light and you can see the laid lines.
Paper with a prominent pattern of ribbed lines in the finished sheet. It is accomplished in handmade paper using a screen-like mould of closely set parallel horizontal wires, crossed at right angles by vertical wires spaced somewhat further apart. The same effect is achieved in machine-made paper with the use of a "dandy roll," positioned at the top of the wire in the wet end of the paper machine.
A handmade paper showing parallel lines of the papermaking frame, visible when held up to the light.
paper with the appearance of alternating dark and light lines, created by wires used in the paper making process. Similar to but less pronounced than ribbed paper. Example: 2ยข Jackson of 1863 (Scott 73).
Paper with lines pressed into each sheet, such as from a screen. lake - A dye bound to an insoluble salt such as alum to produce a pigment, a process called laking. Many modern pigments are lakes of synthetic dyes.
