Description:
Individual page, Spring Summer 1995.PON 880 - Bright colours. 10 swatches, some with foxing, discolouration to page.We are excited to present these ribbon catalogue sample pages as our first Ephemera Catalogue.Today Fontanel is known as Oriel & Fontanel and is the biggest supplier of textile ornaments, weaving and embellishment of ribbons and supply some of the biggest luxury retail brands in the world. These sample books were sent to Fontanel customers around the world and each individual catalogue was compiled by hand and would have taken hours of pain-staking work. The actual number of sample books produced in a season is unknown. To our knowledge these catalogues were from a Melbourne, Australia based ribbon importer who may have only had a single seasonal set sent to them each year.
Each A4 size page is mounted on a single card leave so no page is sampled double-sided, the catalogue was comb bound and each leaf has comb holes. There is foxing and markings to pages and some samples which is… Read More