It began with Qua
2006-11-10 23:57:35 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Other - Visual Arts
Quatro
2006-11-11 00:00:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Paper was named after the size of the mould, that it was made within. this tradition started with the Arabs, who captured Chinese paper makers at the Battle of Talas in 760 ad.
the A sizes were invented by the Bauhaus in Germany to create a standard printing size, which was a simple division of the previous size. thus two sheets of A4 make one sheet of A3
two A3 sheets make an A2, and two A2 sheets an A1, with AO being the largest sheet size. the ize goes down to A8, the business card,
Paper is also sold now by Grams per square meter, here historically it was sold as pounds per ream - a ream being 480 sheets of paper - then the size.
A4 is roughly like the old English Foolscap size, a name invented by Oliver Cromwell when he ordered the royal crown watermark removed from Government paper in 1644, (old Royale paper size). when asked what he wanted put in its place, he said a jesters cap.
a ream of foolscap, 480 sheets at 14lbs is roughly a 120 gsm A4 sheet today.
the largest sheets of paper made by hand were Double Elephant sheets made by Watmans of Kent in the 1820's, being twice the size of the older Imperial. There were crowns, royals, demi's and post's too.
ok, the full list of English sizes is
Pott 15½ × 12¼,
Foolscap, 16½ × 13¼
Sheet-and-third foolscap 22 × 13¼ (for letterheaded paper)
Copy (leagal size) 20 × 16
Post 19 × 15¼
Large Post 21 × 16½
Demy 19½ × 15¼
Medium 22¼ × 17¼
Royal 23½ × 19
Super royal 27¼ × 19¼
Imperial 29½ × 21½
Elephant 28 × 23
Columbier 34½ × 23
Atlas 33 × 26
Double elephant 39½ × 26½
and Antiquarian 52½ × 30½ made on machines for large printed books.
The A, B, and C series paper formats, were developed in Germany by Dr. Walter Porstmann. They were adopted as the German standard DIN 476 in 1922 as a replacement for the vast variety of other paper formats that had been used before, in order to make paper stocking and document reproduction cheaper and more efficient.
2006-11-11 00:22:35 · answer #2 · answered by DAVID C 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Quarto
2006-11-11 00:00:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Foolscap
2006-11-11 00:08:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's quarto , but i'm stuck on 15 down !
2006-11-11 01:09:08 · answer #5 · answered by nicemanvery 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quarto was 10 x 8 inches it was just one size in the
IMPERIAL SYSTEM.
2006-11-11 00:06:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quarto was the squarer one, foolscap was the longer one.
2006-11-11 00:00:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. Stop smoking whatever you're smoking.
2016-05-22 04:54:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A3.99 understand
2006-11-11 00:00:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
don't know... look at this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A4_paper
better yet, here's quarto and all that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_size
2006-11-11 00:01:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋