Research Catalog
Amate, Mexican bark paper
- Title
- Amate, Mexican bark paper / Asao Shimura.
- Author
- Shimura, Asao.
- Publication
- Tokyo : Bunseido Press, c1978.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Schlosser 391 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
Details
- Description
- [1], 6, [4] leaves, [3] leaves of plates : ill., 3 samples; 81 mm.
- Series Statement
- 6p series ; 5
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bookbinding (Binding) – Wooden cases.
- Note
- Samples are "real amate paper" (brown); moral blanco, from white paper mulberry fibers; and amate colorado, from wild fig tree fibers (brown).
- The 3 plates show the ceremonial paper dolls traditionally made from amate.
- "Tim Barrett made real amate paper (thin). Juan Manuel de la Rosa is a Mexican printmaker and papermaker ... Printed on kozo paper (paper mulberry)"--Colophon.
- Issued in a balsa wood box (10 cm.).
- Call Number
- Schlosser 391
- OCLC
- 6059118
- NYPG90-B85382
- Author
- Shimura, Asao.
- Title
- Amate, Mexican bark paper / Asao Shimura.
- Imprint
- Tokyo : Bunseido Press, c1978.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- 6p series ; 5
- Local Note
- No. 103 of 256 copies printed.
- Local Subject
- Ceremonial paper -- Mexico.Paper, Plant fiber.Paper, Plant fiber -- Specimens.Paper, Bark.Paper, Bark -- Specimens.Japanese paper -- Specimens.Paper, Handmade -- Japan -- Specimens.Colored papers -- Specimens.
- Added Author
- Barrett, Timothy.Rosa, Juan Manuel de la, 1945-
- Research Call Number
- Schlosser 391