Distribution of the Ornaments - Prints
With the introduction of printing techniques which made it possible to duplicate drawings of ornaments mechanically, the exchange and dissemination of artistic ideas was greatly simplified and accelerated. Ornamental prints were traded among all sectors of the applied arts and handicrafts and served as inspiration in a wide variety of functions. The folios were collected and preserved in the various studios, used repeatedly, and, unfortunately, often destroyed when they no longer corresponded to the prevailing fashion and taste. As a result, only a few of the folios that were printed in small runs are still preserved today. This explains the rarity of the individual ornamental prints and ornamental print series.
Ornamental prints were first disseminated as single folios and also as decorative title pages or frontispieces in books, and later in small “series”, which were bound together in booklets; eventually they appeared in the form of entire books.
Bernd Evers, Rainald Franz
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