Review
'[The book] provides for the first time in English a concise and scholarly study of papermaking in the Islamic world derived largely from published sources in English, and informed by the writer's professional knowledge of papermaking... it embodies the fruits of meticulous research into the papers of a corpus of Persian and Arabic manuscripts which provide the basis for a methodology for the study, classification and identification of the papers of manuscripts from other Asian cultures.' The Journal of the British Association of Paper Historians 39, July 2001:40 'The first part of this book will be useful for anyone interested in the history of Islamic papermaking. Loveday's summary of the documentary sources is compact, informative, and readable...Paper conservators and paper historians will be especially interested in the second part, on analyzing paper...Loveday has used her knowledge and experience to make her analysis as consistent and objective as possible.' Martha Smith, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C. for the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, Spring 2002/Vol 41/No. 1, pp 97-98.