Pasteprints

anneliesadriaenssens
20 dec 2019
2 minuten om te lezen

Bijgewerkt op: 23 jan 2020

Pasteprints are also a printing technique dated in the second half of the fifteenth century. Pasteprints can also be named Teigdruck. In contrary to what the name indicates, the paste print has nothing to do with dough. The dough was in the past also defined as a sort of black bread dough. There can also be drawn a parallel between paste prints and applied brocade because they both made use of a mould and a tin foil. The material of the mould for this technique is mostly wood. Bowman drew the parallel with Medieval tactices where a kind of dough can be made and that the dough could be modelled, gilded or painted depending on the used recipe The material that was labeled as a brownish dough by many experts in the field was exactly a multi-layered package of layers of which the materials were degraded, the metal foil was oxidized and a fine white powder was formed on top. Coombs, Farell, Field and Beratalan gave us more information about the materials and techniques by the use of modern analyse techniques. Elisabeth Coombs and Eugene Farell made it clear that handles about multiple layers, where the paper is covered with many layers of tin foil with an adhesive in between and then covered with a yellow colored glaze (orange glacis to imitate gold). Alexander Sheld and Roland Damm analyses the build-up of the flock prints and the paste prints with other techniques. In Germany in the middle ages cistercians in Lichtenthal made out of eatable dough reliefs for pastries and so on with religious and profanous depictions on them. The recipe was used to make the dough for reconstruction and afterwards putting the dough in the mould or pressing the stamps in the dough.