16 oversize sheets for gift wrap, crafting, decor & more featuring elaborate designs from a renowned letterpress foundry
In the nineteenth century, technological innovations allowed for a creative flourishing in print, and letterpress practitioners produced extravagant materials to showcase their craft.
On view in Artistic Printing Creative Papers is a selection from two such dazzling promotions, issued by the famed Italian foundry Nebiolo. Their large-format pages entice with resplendent inks, wide-ranging typefaces, and charming ornaments, such as manicules, silhouettes, fleurons, and ornate borders.
With type rippling across ribbons, stacked in stately friezes, or clustered in decorative vignettes, the sixteen displays here—printed on oversize perforated pages—celebrate the bygone artistry of the industrial era.