Northwoods Book Arts Guild will again have a table at this wonderfully successful holiday bazaar. On display and for sale will be handmade books, cards, tool cases, broadsides and much more. New this year from the NBG Letterpress Shop are Christmas cards and gift tags featuring seasonal hand- carved seasonal images as well as vintage engravings. Come celebrate the season with us!

 

271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book

In 1692 an artist known only as A. Boogert sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors. He began the book with some text about the use

of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one, two, or three parts water. The premise sounds simple enough, but the final product is almost unfathomable in its detail and scope.

It's hard not to compare the  hundreds of pages of color to its contemporary equivalent, the Pantone Color Guide, which wouldn't be published for the first time until 1963.

Learn much more here.