the curious case of the unidentifiable paper!
perhaps some of the printmakers, artists or general supplies enthusiasts can help me out here. while cleaning out old archives of forgotten paper, the director of our local print studio found this curious and unidentified paper. this studio has been around long before any of us were there so records of what kind of paper this might be are nonexistent.
it is a soft white sheet of 22x30”. if i could hazard a guess, it would say it is some sort of etching paper, cotton, but the sizing is unknown. it is but one sheet (probably part of a sample pack, since it was find among a pile of other unrelated single sheets of paper) and once had a price sticker on it as evident by the gross discoloration to where the tack met the sheet (on the print side no less! PAPER MANUFACTURES! STOP DOING THAT! IT RUINS THE PAPER!)
the reason i am curious though is mostly because it has a very unique, but unknown, identifying mark. unlike most fine papers, this page had a debossed logo on the screen side (instead of the usual internal watermark). an odd but all around cool looking goat head.
does anyone out there know who made this paper?
This seems to be more so some discarded paper that was being prepped for a print; a chop probably. Maybe someones personal studio? Maybe go through archives and match it?
