F L E M I S H P A P E R S
Designs made from wood blocks
hand cut by Grant O’Brien
2018 PRICES OF THE MACHINE-PRINTED FLEMISH PAPERS
Catalogue of the available Flemish papers.
Prices of hand-printed Flemish papers
How to pay for the Flemish papers you have ordered
Hints on laying the Flemish 'silk' paper (O'Brien Type 1)
Hints on decorating the papers after they are laid.
The 'Vermeer' paper (O'Brien Type 15)
Standard weight (80 - 100gm/m²) machine-printed papers
The customer is kindly asked to work out from the spaces on the instrument they are decorating how many of the strips or sheets are required. Please then e-mail your order giving the number of strips of each paper and the paper type to:
We will then work out the total cost including postage and packing and let you know the details of how payment can be made. Please let us know where to ship the papers and whether you would like them sent by standard post (air mail is standard outwith the UK - air mail is reliable and fast) or by express courier (much more expensive and only marginally faster).
Aside from the cost of the laborious task of cutting the blocks from which these papers were made, the major intrinsic cost arises from the cost of the acid-free hand-made rag paper onto which the patterns are printed. This paper is now made by only a few firms in Europe, and was made for us especially for the printing of these papers. It has a low coefficient of expansion with wetting, it resists abrasion when rubber erasers are used on it to remove pencil guide marks, it is well sized so that ink and paint used on it will not bleed into the fibres of the paper and, like all acid-free hand made paper, it will not discolour nor become brittle with age. It also has the a similar thickness and weight to the original Flemish papers.
The numbering of the papers in the catalogue of papers and the price list list below refer to the numbers given to the patterns in my book Ruckers. A harpsichord and virginal building tradition (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990; reprint Cambridge, 2008) pages 128-144.
The prices below are for machine-printed papers. A small stock of hand-printed papers is still available of some of the paper types at a somewhat higher cost. If these are available for the paper types that you have ordered and you would like these PLEASE SPECIFY THAT YOU WANT HAND-PRINTED PAPERS. There is only a limited quantity of the hand-printed papers remaining and these will NOT be reprinted.
These prices were updated 1 January, 2023.
For a larger image of the wood-block pattern, click on the image given under 'Whole or partial sample'.
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Paper type |
Whole or partial sample |
Price |
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O'Brien Type 1 - the 'silk' pattern Dimensions: 368mm x 249mm |
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£18.20 per sheet |
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O'Brien Type 3 - the white dolphin pattern Dimensions: 361mm long x 131-177mm wide |
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£14.73 per strip |
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O'Brien Type 4 - the black dolphin pattern Dimensions: 356mm long x 128-191mm wide |
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£14.73 per strip |
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O'Brien Type 5 Dimensions: 373mm long x 74-88mm wide |
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£10.20 per strip |
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O'Brien Type 5a Dimensions: 377mm long x 79-93mm wide |
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£10.20 per strip |
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O'Brien Type 7 Dimensions: 386mm long x 38-44mm wide |
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£8.23 per strip |
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O'Brien Type 7 reverse Dimensions: 386mm long x 38-44mm wide |
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£8.23 per strip |
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O'Brien Type 9 Dimensions: 370mm long x 24-32mm wide |
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£4.76 per strip |
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O'Brien Type 13 Dimensions: 376mm lone x 33-42mm wide |
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£5.67 per strip |
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O'Brien Type 14 Dimensions: 375mm long x 33-38mm wide |
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£5.67 per strip |
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O'Brien Type 15 Dimensions: 402mm long x 158-175mm wide ***See below |
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£13.73 per strip |
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O'Brien Type 16 Dimensions: 384mm long x 32-44mm wide |
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£5.83 per strip |
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O'Brien Type 16 reverse Dimensions: 382mm long x 32-44mm wide |
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£5.83 per strip |
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O'Brien Type 21 Dimensions: 378mm long x 132-139mm wide |
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£10.20 per strip |
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O'Brien Type 22 Dimensions: 378mm long x 132-138mm wide |
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£10.20 per strip |
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O'Brien Type 24 Dimensions: 360mm long x 47 - 57mm wide |
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£6.88 per strip |
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O'Brien Pellegrino 1 Dimensions: 365mm x 35-49mm wide |
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£5.83 per strip |
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O'Brien Pellegrino 2 Dimensions: 342 mm long x 53-63mm wide |
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£6.88 per strip |
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O'Brien Pellegrino 3 Dimensions: 343mm long x 55-68mm wide |
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£6.88 per strip |
***The price of this paper includes extra border patterns of this design to use along the ends of the main central pattern when used on virginal front flaps. See The 'Vermeer' paper (O'Brien Type 15),
Catalogue of the available hand-made Flemish papers.
Prices of hand-printed Flemish papers
How to pay for the Flemish papers you have ordered
Hints on laying the Flemish 'silk' paper (O'Brien Type 1)
Hints on decorating the papers after they are laid.
The 'Vermeer' paper (O'Brien Type 15)
Drawings are available some of which show how to decorate the papers after laying
Harpsichord-making woods for sale
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