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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 1731181, member: 56"]Held up to light, laid paper looks like this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]237845[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It is the horizontal and vertical lines that show it to be laid paper. The cross pattern that you see there is called a watermark. There are a great many different watermarks, though certainly not every piece of paper shows them. Sometimes they can be used to identify who manufactured the paper. (The veining you see near the bottom is the engraved image on the other side showing through in the light.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 1731181, member: 56"]Held up to light, laid paper looks like this: [ATTACH=full]237845[/ATTACH] It is the horizontal and vertical lines that show it to be laid paper. The cross pattern that you see there is called a watermark. There are a great many different watermarks, though certainly not every piece of paper shows them. Sometimes they can be used to identify who manufactured the paper. (The veining you see near the bottom is the engraved image on the other side showing through in the light.)[/QUOTE]
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