Bond Paper is a high quality stationary paper made for repeated handling as it sets ink well.
Glossary Keyword: Paper
Blotting Cardboard
Blotting Cardboard is ‘an absorbent material used for removing excess ink or paint’.
Base Material
Base Material is the generic name given to the main substance of paper and will depend on the plant material at hand. Flax, daphne, hemp, sisal water hyacinth, bamboo and bagasse provide substance that are popular to work with in a traditional manner, as do recycled cotton rages, jute, gunny bags and fish nets. Soft and
Archival Paper
Archival Paper is acid free paper, which has a pH level of 8 or 9 on a scale of 0-14 where 0 is acidic and 7 is neutral.
Alum
Alum is a mordant or color fixative. Available in three crystalline salts it is dissolved in water and applied to paper prior to marking.
AIHPIA
The All India handmade Paper Industries Association was formed in 1998 to ‘enable exchange between handmade paper produces and an expanding eco-friendly customer base’. It organizes an annual Paperex, which is an exhibition on handmade paper involving several industry participants and stakeholders. Their aim is to introduce handmade and recycled paper into government use, especially
Couching
An embroidery stitch in which threads are laid on the surface of the cloth and tacked in position with small stitches of another thread, which may themselves be arranged or coloured to create a pattern. Decoration with metallic or metallic-wrapped thread is often couched both for economy (no precious metal is wasted on the back)
Synthetic dyes / Chemical dyes
All dyes, natural or synthetic, are chemicals, but the term “chemical dyes” refers to those synthesized in the laboratory. Aniline is a chemical substance derived from coal-tar. Discovered in 1856, it was the first synthetic dyestuff. The applications of a number of dyes produced from aniline changed the world’s dye industry. It is sometimes used
Caustic Soda (Sodium Hydroxide)
Very strong Alkali used for scouring, dyeing and finishing of cotton. Caustic soda is also known as soda ash and is an alkali to help break down plant fibers during boiling.
Mordant
An agent, often in the form of a metallic salt which combines chemically with the dyestuff to fix the dye permanently. It has an affinity for the cloth and an attraction for the colouring matter and so in combining with them it forms an insoluble colour lake on the cloth.