Oil AND Water

In the 19th century, books were commonly issued without hard covers. If you liked the book, you had it bound, often in leather.

Oil pigments were floated on water or some such, and papers and bindings too were colored with the oil ink:

End paper from Barcelona, late 19th c.

Have you got similar images? Oil ON water (as in another recent post), insoluble mixtures, iridescence, other ?

Here's the exterior leather binding of the same book, similarly treated:

This might qualify for this thread too?

We're easy, after all.

In the 19th century, books were commonly issued without hard covers. If you liked the book, you had it bound, often in leather.

 

Oil pigments were floated on water or some such, and papers and bindings too were colored with the oil ink:

 

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End paper from Barcelona, late 19th c.

Have you got similar images? Oil ON water (as in another recent post), insoluble mixtures, iridescence, other ?

Very interesting indeed. I like this particular photo. This is what i am trying to find out about. Maybe not so much the History but the technique. Thanks. F

This is what i am trying to find out about

I thought so, but I didn't want to treat your post as a "No Words" gallery.