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Advertising Poster Paper Making History Wiggins Teape George Hardie - Original vintage advertising poster issued by Wiggins Teape featuring a colourful, informative design by an English graphic designer George Hardie (b.1944), telling the paper-making history, written on multiple booklets, including descriptions and illustrations of people performing various steps of cutting, boiling, washing, beating, diluting, draining, drying, and trimming, and a short history from invention of papermaking in China, Arabs learning how to make paper seven centuries later, and reaching Europe in the 10th-11th century and England in 1495, with Fourdrinier brothers developing first machine to manufacture paper by a continuous process. Founded in 1761, Wiggins Teape was a historic British speciality paper manufacturer, renowned for producing high-quality paper products like Conqueror, as well as industrial papers, greaseproof, and tracing paper. It grew into a global manufacturer before merging to form Arjo Wiggins in 1990, with the brand later acquired by Antalis. Printed by The Curwen Press. Good condition, creasing, tears, paper loss on left edge. Country of issue: UK, designer: Trickett and Webb Limited, George Hardie, size (cm): 84x60, year of printing: 1982.