The bibliophile's glossary

Arches (paper)

Paper from the Arches papermills in the Vosges, a mill attested since 1492: wove or laid paper of pure rag, strong and soft, watermarked with the name of the house. The paper of watercolourists and engravers, in the twentieth century it became one of the great publishers' papers, « vélin d'Arches » or « Arches à la forme ».

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