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| Moravian Paper |
Decorated paste paper was a specialty of Moravian women in the Single Sisters’ houses. Moravian sisters in different places around the world made this Moravian paper in various colors and color combinations and sold it to local customers, such as bookbinders. After putting a colored paste on the paper, the sisters used tools such as pins, stamps, or their fingers and the ball of their hands to make the designs. The samples shown here are all from the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem. They were presumably all produced locally.
for more information: see the bibliography;
or visit the website of a German book collector with nice images of modern recreations of Moravian paper.
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book cover: A. G. Spangenberg, Kurzgefaßte historische Nachricht (Barby: Christian Friedrich Laux, 1781) |
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book cover: A. G. Spangenberg, Kurzgefaßte historische Nachricht (Barby: Christian Friedrich Laux, 1781) |
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book cover: A. G. Spangenberg, Kurzgefaßte historische Nachricht (Barby: Christian Friedrich Laux, 1781) |
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book cover: A. G. Spangenberg, Kurzgefaßte historische Nachricht (Barby: Christian Friedrich Laux, 1781) |
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book cover: A. G. Spangenberg, Kurzgefaßte historische Nachricht (Barby: Christian Friedrich Laux, 1781) |
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book cover: A. G. Spangenberg, Kurzgefaßte historische Nachricht (Barby: Christian Friedrich Laux, 1781) |
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book cover: A. G. Spangenberg, Kurzgefaßte historische Nachricht (Barby: Christian Friedrich Laux, 1781) |
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cover of catalog of single brethren, older and younger boys in Bethlehem, 1768
(BethSB 58) |
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cover of catalog of single brethren in Bethlehem according to their classes, 1767
(BethSB 57) |
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cover of catalog of single brethren, older and younger boys in Bethlehem 1767
(BethSB 57) |
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Private (?) cashbook of a member of
the sisters' choir, 1814-1820
(BethSS 83) |
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Sketchbook of Hedwig Angelica Frueauff, 1816 (FemSem 364.1) |
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"Kostbuch", register of receipts from and payments to the Single Sisters, according to the rooms (Stuben), 1791-1825, front
(BethSS 59) |
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"Kostbuch", register of receipts from and payments to the Single Sisters, according to the rooms (Stuben), 1791-1825, back
(BethSS 59) |
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