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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 436400, member: 56&quot;]It&#039;s certainly a laid paper texture.&nbsp; Machine made papers can be given that texture (I have some here), but I can&#039;t see someone reproducing a picture for decorative purposes going to the lengths of reproducing the texture.</p><p><br /></p><p>With hand-made laid paper, pulp tended to pile up around the vertical chains, which made the paper slightly thicker there.&nbsp; That effect does not occur with machine made paper.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s what I mean on a reliably 18thC piece of laid paper:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]153131[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>But that can be a very subtle effect.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is also reliably 18thC, but I don&#039;t see the effect here:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]153130[/ATTACH] </p><p>(The watermark you see is called the Strasbourg Lily.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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