ANTIQUARIAN LIMITED EDITION GICLEE COLLECTION

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"GICLEE" DIGITAL INKJET PRINTING

Giclee process has been chosen for our range of Archival Limited Edition Prints due to its light fastness of pigment inks that last approximately 120-140 years before acceptable fading occurs.We then use an archival heavy weight acid free cotton art paper of the weight 310 gms which mirrors the 100% "Rag" (flax and hemp fibre) Paper was used by the printing industry up until the 1850’s.
Wood Pulp was introduced a as a cheap default paper source in 1883.
An old Victorian Rhyme captures the historical reliance on flax and hemp prior to our exclusive relance on wood pulp production: Rags make paper, paper makes money, money makes banks, banks make loans, loans make poverty, poverty makes rags...

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