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THE PRINTABLE CRAFTS BLOG

This is the Anni Arts blog dedicated to printable crafts. I want to share my passion with you and pass on tips, ideas, photos and articles for inspiring printables. I will also post articles about other crafts, folk art, design and art, as well as updates on many products that feature the Anni Arts designs.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

WEEKEND WRAPPER 4: FREE CHOCOLATE WRAPPER
HOPE AND FRIENDSHIP VINTAGE SCRAPS

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A History of Printed Scraps
THE HISTORY OF SCRAPBOOKS AND ALBUMS
The last article in the series that was compiled from the interesting book below:


Scrapbook albums flourished from the early 1800s to late Edwardian times. Early scrapbooks were an extension of the vogue for recording personal mementoes and thoughts, which was popular at the time.

A great deal of personal writing and poetry was included which often included personal narrative and verses in journal-style. Extracts of plays, passages from literature, and dedications on the flyleaf were also featured.

Pencil drawings and water colours are a feature of the early scrapbooks too.

The scrap evolved from the simplest black and white engravings to heavily embossed chromolithograph reliefs printed in sheets. As scrap albums became popular, they were crammed full of scraps of embossed reliefs.

Albums revealed a spectrum of subject matter and included pictures ranging from the romantic to wildlife, agriculture, architecture, the military, flowers and seasonal.Quips, comments and verses were included.

The scraps were combined with a variety of material selected by the compiler of the album. These included photos, postcards, certificates, greeting cards and advertising material. In fact, scrap albums can be roughly dated by the type of material included in them.

Some of the earliest examples of embossing in the UK were decorative and embossed price tags, wrappers and milliners stock control tickets from 1820 to 1830. These were often ornately illustrated and were valued motifs in scrap albums.

During the 1830’s and 1840’s companies dealing in reliefs and chromos expanded their production of luxury paper goods to include specially manufactured albums.

Albums of this era were of high quality with covers of fine-tooled leather and paper of exceptional quality. They included prepared pages with rectangular and oval spaces for the insertion of lithographs and printed material and had lavishly printed endpages. Beautiful pages with scraps devoted to particular themes were created by creative owners.

Some albums had engraved clasps and brass locks. Many had extra pages with magnificently embossed images like birds and flowers or additions of thicker pages for drawings and water colours. Some also had decorations preprinted onto some of the pages and contained preprinted poems and texts from plays and literature.
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The fronticepiece of an album often contained a pun on the word scrap. Examples are titles like “Scrapiana” and a picture of dog with a message in its mouth that reads: “Scraps most greatfully received” or “ I want all the scraps I can collect”.

The 1850’s to the 1880’s saw a great increase in the use of cut out paper material juxtaposed with reliefs. Clippings and pictures from newspapers, magazines and Ladies’ Journals were used alongside embossed scraps. Many collectors arranged their albums thematically and some spectacular reliefs were devoted to topical scrapbooks like Queen Victoria’s Jubilee.

The period from 1880-1890 was the Golden Age of the printed relief scraps. Sophisticated albums were created with many categories of reliefs. The enormous range of subject matter mirrored the varied interests of the age. Scrapbooks often had material from many different countries.

The scraps of the First World War and depression era were produced on poor quality paper with bleeding inks. After the 1930’s the demand for scraps started to fall. People stopped creating their own entertainment when radio and cinema became ever more
popular. The rise of popular photography also meant that albums were devoted to snap shots and captions in stead of scraps and journaling.

After the Second World War, the look and nature of scrapbooks changed completely as they simply became holding places for clippings from magazine pages and newspapers and were often chucked away. They no longer were the cherished creations of the 19th century.

Scrapbooks had to wait for the scrap revival of the 1990’s to once more take their place as lavishly created keepers of memories. Professionally designed scrap pages and elements reappeared to enchant creative scrappers with endless beautiful themes.

There are more articles about Printable Crafts, Design and Art to follow, so visit often.

Anni Arts has professionally designed and illustrated printable crafts, templates and graphics specially created for crafters by designer Anneke Lipsanen http://www.anniarts.com/

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Monday, February 8, 2010

WEEKEND WRAPPER: FREE CHOCOLATE WRAPPER 3


Vintage scraps of winter fun and a winter kiss on this Weekend Wrapper. It is in high res 300 dpi PDF format. It will stay up for a limited period to make space for the next one, so download when you see it from ANNI ARTS
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A History of Printed Scraps
THE TRADE IN FANCY GOODS
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The scrap, which evolved from small black engraved images, developed into black and white lithographs. In the early 1800’s stationers and book-sellers sold black and white lithographs as juvenile scrap sheets – also called comic cuts. These black and white scraps were often skillfully coloured by hand.

Images on the early sheets were seldom clearly separated and would often run into one another. Some were separated by a white margin. Often there was one central panel with a variety of related scenes around it.

The development of colour lithography (chromolithography) in 1837 led to heavily embossed chromolithograph reliefs printed on sheets. The images were first reproduced on clumsy lithographic stones, followed by the development of steel lithoplates which made large scale printing possible.

The first significant use of small hand-tinted litho prints were German bakers and the scraps or “Oblaten” they used to decorate confirmation wafers. The bakers placed scraps as educational pictorial aids on the wafers.

The name “Oblaten” was retained even when it was extended to non-religious products and become a general term for scraps. The scraps were also called Reliefbilder, Pressbilder and Glanzbilder which referred to the glossy sheen from the gum and gelatine coating.

Printers began providing a wider variety of decorations for the baker’s trade as the bakers extended the scraps from religious to festive fare. These included cakes and confectionery for birthdays and parties, as well as for traditional festive and seasonal occasions.

People began collecting the pretty decorations on the baked goods. A favourite was the figure of Saint Nick for the 6th of December. Biscuits were stamped into Santa shapes with a full-colour scrap of him on the biscuits.

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Germany was the best and most prolific producer of high standard scraps and charming cards. The German scraps became very popular in all of Europe, the UK and the colonies, America. In Scandinavia they were called “glansbilder” or “glansbilleder” and in France were called "noveautes" or chromos.

Interest for scraps extended to UK and its colonies, America, Europe, Scandinavia and Russia. In UK, America and elsewhere the imports and the increased local production led to an increase in trade of scraps and fancy goods like albums and cards.

From 1850, dealers and publishers of fancy stationery and fancy boxes were quick to use the new materials and their businesses flourished.

Augustine Thierry introduced the Xmas card to England and the chromolithographs imported by Edward Elliot led to the rapid rise in the sale of Valentines. Scraps were also popular for Christmas, Easter and Birthday cards.

Sheets depicting scenes and views on a rectangular format were produced for albums, scrapbooks, boxes and screens for crafting by ladies of leisure. The supply of small chromos and sheets of elaborately embossed reliefs in a vast array of subject matter and for every occasion spread as an independent business.

Improved methods of production resulted in large numbers of fine quality reliefs being exported from the continental countries like Germany and France.

By the close of the 19th century scrap sheets were a highly lucrative business.

There are more articles in the series on the History of Scraps to follow, so visit often.
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Anni Arts has professionally designed and illustrated printable crafts, templates and graphics specially created for crafters by designer Anneke Lipsanen http://www.anniarts.com/

You may use this artcle as long as the above paragraph with link back to Anni Arts is used. There are more articles for syndication on Anni Arts

Find unique cardmaking kits, templates, scrapbooking, chocwrappers, wedding stationery, favors and ebooks to download and print. There's a super Anni Arts Printable Crafts Club, Licenses for Home Business Crafters and many Freebies for Art Mail Subscribers too. And if you like the designs, but are not a crafter, there are many ready goods and online scrapbooks to order.
http://www.anniarts.com