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Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu ABeCeDarium - 06/17/05 11:41 AM
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/gbw/gallery/abecedarium/abc1.htm

pretty neat stuff.

Posted By: Jackie Re: ABeCeDarium - 06/17/05 02:48 PM
WOW! eta: [HUG]! I can't think when I've seen anything so interesting!
Hey, Helen --you've got to see this. I'm not sure why, but you're the first one I thought of as I was looking at this. Capfka and wow, you're both familiar with the printing process--I think you'll be interested, too. And Father Steve--they used a ba-aa-aad word: flip-book.

There were almost a dictionary's worth (for me) of terms:
abaca; the lost language Ugaritic, which was the first alphabetic cuneiform language discovered; tyvek; kozo paper; full blue French chagrin; German Ingres; gouache; green oasis goatskin; onlays and inlays
(this one, I think I figured out; but I've not see onlay before); shadow-mould paper; and gocco-printed images.
This one they explained: volvelle (revolving wheel).

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