This time there were definitely things that were similar and things that were different. We actively could not touch the artifacts due to the delicacy of the paper and ink and other stuff.
A lot of magazine covers and articles appear to be hand-written/drawn. You can see that sometimes the author makes errors or the ink smudges. Kinda reminds me of those old-timey political cartoons that you used to see in newspapers in the 2000’s.
Apparently in order to make pages, before the commonality of chopping down trees, you used to have to use various animal skins, which you would then have to shave/scrape the hair off to write, that must’ve definitely been painstaking… and gross.
This wasn’t really my forte, as I’m looking to work more into the actual creating of content than the process of publishing content, but I can see why others would be interested, as it appears this was the earliest forms of preserving history, before the use of such things as printers, websites, etc.
A lot more paper was wasted too, nowadays books usually go on to the ends of the page, or at least only leaving a couple inches left of the paper, this would definitely impact the amount of copies that one could produce of various works of art.
Appears that copies would look drastically different from the original, since when looking at one of these paintings, the original was the typical black and white of pen and ink, whereas the copy was entirely pink, they mentioned something about copper within these, so I think that’s where the pink tint comes from, from my experience its like the rust part, which can rub off and come out as pink color when under the right pressure.
This adventure wasn’t as personalized to each person as the previous one was, which didn’t make me as interested. It was more so just a history lesson than anything else on how things were published and “mass”produced back in ye olden days. One thing that this taught me was that a lot more natural resources were used back then due to the advancement of technology being as slow as it was until the 20th century (which is when it skyrocketed). Definitely not as efficient, much more costly (for the time) as well as wasting resources that could’ve been used for more content.
In a nutshell, this trip wasn’t very interesting to me personally due to what I am trying to go for as a writer, but I can see the appeal to those who are much more invested into the process of how those in the 16th-17th century edited and published their own works.
