Talk:BPG Unusual Paper Supports
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This page was created from the section named Over-Sized/Three-Dimensional/Unusual Shapes, which encompassed various types of objects that did not fit into other categories, it would probably be best to create additional pages. Copied the table of content from this current page and seeing what to do with each section. I would then delete this current page:
- Move back to BPG Support Problems (write 1-2 sentence to introduce the new pages, then paste these underneath, maybe put them together under a new header?)
- Over-sized papers
- Embossed papers
- Each section would get a new individual page created under "Specialized Formats"
- Fans
- Wallpaper
- Globes
- Boxes
- Move into BPG Composite Structures
- Screens (there is almost no content in there currently, should eventually become its own page under "Specialized formats")
- Papier-mâché
- Cast or molded paper
- Varnished Wall Maps (move its bibliography under a new header, there is no written content currently, could eventually become a new page)
- Other objects made by distortion of planar sheet
--Sandrine Blais (talk) 17:02, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
Frances thoughts:
- Are we gonna rename 'Support Problems' to be more clear, like how we wanna do 'Media Problems'? I think that would be a good idea...perhaps 'Materiality and Condition Issues' or smth -- perhaps split it into two pages
- I kind of don't like the phrase 'composite structures', because like where is the line...prints and paper+ink, there are oil paintings on paper, etc.... Cast/molded paper feels like a stretch for a composite object bc it's literally just paper still. Here is my proposition for an alternative grouping:
- 3-Dimensional Formats -- a grouping, with everything below its own page (or maybe the big stuff gets its own page and then an 'Other' page for the less common stuff)
- Fans
- Globes
- Screens
- Cast or molded paper
- Papier-mâché
- Boxes
- Other objects made by distortion of planar sheet (this is too long of a title lol - could do 'Other 3D Formats')
- Specialized Formats-- this would be a grouping, and everything below would be its own page (some of these taken from Composite Structures page)
- Varnished papers (mostly focused on wall maps, but sometimes other things get varnished too, like rando artworks)
- Wallpaper
- Restrained paper (this should include cloth-lined paper - which is what I think the name of the section should be instead of papier marouflage)
- Over-sized papers (I do think if we rename Support Problems, then this can go there)
- Embossed papers (ditto)
- Layered paper structures (maybe this is one page and these sub-points go in it)
- Chine colle
- Collage
- Compound drawings (I don't love this descriptor, needs a rename. All the examples are kinds of mounting, so maybe something in that vein)
