Watermarks mark Our Yore Paper. So Our

 

Watermarks are. Yore Simple-Complex Pictograms

depicting, reflecting. Words meaningfully

varied thus Representing. Symbols so designed

conceptively similar too. To proof, recognition,

originality. Trademarks/ownership, Crests, Coats of Arms.

Decorative Art + Our humor. Yores Messages that so

Mark Yore Papers. Ours Water Marked

 

Watermarks markedly only lil’ after. The Inventings

oft. Of Our Paper. Sometimes places yore early

13th Century onwards

Printers. Markings thereupons as well. Well as

 

 

being nomened Watermarks they are. Not

exactly

Water Marks so named. Wire

 

thus bent into. To appropriate shape was so. Tied

onto. To the Paper Mesh Molds leaving. Then

an light impression on so forth. Forthrightly left on

now damp. Paper

Pulp/Layers during the processings. Pressing out

Waters becomes thus this. Ours that…

 

Wirey formed Markings… on per sheet per se. Sayings

 

Our wiry Yores Paper. Makers datings backs into. To

Pulps oft. Of Our app. 13th-18th Cent. Yore France, Italy +

Spain, Europe wherebys overs Times, Places. Placing Millions

of Watermarks may so well exist. Catalogues numberings

 

indicate over 200,000 have been studied/noted

in some manner whilst. Estimates only 4+% really

so documented. Early

 

 

Watermarks oft quite. Simple seemingly rep.

Paper Makers Mill Nomen or. Their own Name. There e.g.

Our Yore Italian Printers

Fabriano running one. Mill near Ancona, app.1276-, used

one F. Others nomened

 

such as Foolscap rep. named Size. Standards, Symbols,

Cyphers. Numbers, Letters.

 

Flowers, Beastiary (…real or legendary…), Insects. Fruit +

Veg. Tools, Weapons, Celestial Objects. Objectionable or

likeable Characters/Persons (…factual or fictional…)

 

 

also utilised. Using all so

 

Well as used extensively

by the. Peaceful book loving oft. Of

Peoples those. These incorruptible

Albigensians Cathars/Christians

who later. Soon enough underwent Papal. Catholicism

Inquisitional so intentional. Crusadings

Massacres by then. Vacuous Vaticanus Forces. Forcefully

 

removing bookish Christian. Priestly + Otherswise Families +

Lineages. From their

 

Pious Heads. By Sword there. Sordid

 

 

 

reminders so in Our World. Legends tell

tho’ exact Reasons for very. Yore Watermarkings

use may well vary + so differ Our. Paper

 

Watermarks became an Idea/Concept well. Copied +

 

distributed printwise otherswise arounds

abouts. Printings in Our world. Legends

topically aboves ref’d in belows. Topics include

tell Paper. Markings of this type adaptable now. On many

 

Our forms of Money, Stamps, Literature so forth. Forthrightly

left Yore Watermarks a common. Theme still being pressed

out. In + on our Papers. Including

 

works oft. Of Arts + Books. Artfully

 

 

booked in next marking. Ups outing down

writ on 24/11:

Quirky Quotes #18.