PAPER MACHINE WORK ANGEL, paper mache.

"PAPER MACHINE WORK ANGEL"", paper mache, dimensions: The art of "paper mache" is an older process than you might think. The term itself comes from the French. The development of the processing of the "paper pulp" probably also goes back to the country which in the 3rd Century also invented paper itself: China.
Chinese prisoners of war probably introduced this technique in the 8th century. century then to the Middle East, Persia and India, from where they then in the 15th century brought to Europe by Venetian traders.

At that time, the production was still quite time-consuming and expensive. Scraps of paper were made pliable by heat, softened in water and then placed in wooden moulds. Further layers of paper paste, which had previously been mixed with clay, soot and oil to form a paste, were placed on top of this.
In England and France around the middle of the 19th century Papier-mâché was even discovered as a material for making furniture. In 1765 the first papier-mâché factory was founded in Germany, which was mainly known for its finely crafted tobacco jars. In 1810, the series production of papier-mâché doll heads began in Nuremberg.