Here is a tidbit about the company that still supplies the
paper for all United States banknotes, plus currency paper for 22 other countries.
"Two hundred years ago, Zenas Crane set up the
company's first, one-vat mill on the banks of the Housatonic River, across the
state from his native Boston, in Dalton Massachusetts. In doing so, he was following the lead of
four generation of Cranes, who have been making paper since the early days of
the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Zenas Crane's father had sold paper to
engraver/silversmith Paul Revere in 1775 for the first true American banknotes
to be issued in the colonies."
~ From Paperie: The Art of Writing and Wrappingwith Paper, a fun coffee-table book from folks at Kate's Paperie with Bo
Niles. Even if the book does mention
their business more than once, it's lavishly illustrated with pictures and
artful photographs and exhaustively research by people whom I don't hesitate to
call obsessed, p. 59.
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