Storm in a teacup etymology series#

If there was any quality to the pulp, it could never run into such moulds as these were made in.' He began to pick up the impressions of a series of large exhibition water-marks, and hold them to the windows, that their transparent wonders might be seen. 'That's right,' said the vatman 'they think that the paper that can take such pictures must be good for anything though the truth is that it's good for nothing-but the pictures. We show them one thing which awakes their highest admiration and causes them to buy another!' All this Jordan Kellock very well understood, and his master knew that he did but Trenchard liked to talk and excelled in lucid exposition. We know that it's not ‘paper' at all in our sense, and that it's a special brew for this special purpose but the public, amazed by the pictures, buys our paper and doesn't know that the better the paper, the more impossible such sleight of hand would be upon it. What we've got to do is show them-not tip-top paper, but a bit of magic and such a fool is the public that when he sees these pictures in water-mark, he'll think the paper that produces them must be out of the common good. The public doesn't know hand-made from machine-made. Now samples of our great papers mean nothing to anybody but the dealers. They love a conjuring trick, and if you can stop them long enough to ask ‘how's it done?' you often interest them and win them. The public, Kellock, must be appealed to by the methods of Cheap Jack at the fair. Trenchard.' 'Just the exact opposite of what I'm after for these advertisements. 'They like the new currency paper and the colour suits them.' 'It's a very fine paper, Mr. 10 - hand papermaking 'I've heard from that South American Republic, Kellock,' said Mr. Storm in a Teacup: A Paper Mill 'Romance' bernie vinzani View of Tuckenhay Mill from road to the millpond, circa 1890. CHAPTER II: MAGIC PICTURES The master of the mill Matthew Trenchard discusses a 'special' paper with Jordan Kellock. Dene Mill is about to produce a paper never before made at the mill, and each worker depends on the other for its success. This relationship has interesting consequences later. Though she is married to the good-natured Ned, she considers the more dignified Jordan a close friend. They are all together in a rowboat discussing their future. CHAPTER I: BOW CREEK The drama begins with Medora Dingle, paper finisher, her husband Ned, beaterman extraordinaire, and their mutual friend Jordan Kellock considered one of the best vatmen in England. For the sake of clarity, I provide the titles of selected chapters from which the quotations are drawn, aspects of the plot, and additional explanatory notes below in roman. The selected passages, reproduced below in italics, describe the sensual aspects of the workers at their craft, their aesthetic considerations of what they made, and their physical abilities in their daily routines among the stacks of paper. The author of this book has astutely, and at times poetically, contributed to the lore of hand papermaking by documenting what may have been firsthand observations of the inner workings of the paper mill. There are many thematic elements twined with the personal lives of the workers, their skills making paper, their attitudes about their jobs, social activism, and their place in society. The author Eden Phillpotts modeled the fictitious Dene Mill after the well-known Tuckenhay Mill located on Bow Creek in South Devon. It is a romance novel set in England during the early twentieth century, the plot centering around three workers of the Dene Paper Mill. Storm in a Teacup has been in my library since the early 1980s when I started collecting books on hand papermaking during my time at Twinrocker. He now directs the studio facility in the English, Creative Writing, and Book Arts program at the University of Maine–Machias where he teaches papermaking, letterpress printing, and electronic publishing. His career spans forty years as a vatman, studio collaborator, equipment builder, and teacher. He worked as an apprentice at Twinrocker and was co-owner of Mac-Gregor and Vinzani Paper in Maine.

Bernie Vinzani received an MFA in printmaking from Indiana State University in 1975.

Storm in a teacup etymology