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Cotton Rag Paper

Paper made entirely from cotton fibre, with no wood pulp, giving high permanence and a soft matte surface.

Measured in g/m²

In depth

Cotton contains no lignin, the compound in wood pulp that yellows and embrittles paper as it ages, so a hundred-per-cent rag sheet is naturally archival without chemical buffering. Its matte surface scatters light, which limits maximum black but gives a tactile, painterly quality valued for fine-art work.

Examples in practice

A cotton rag print reaches a lower maximum black than baryta but holds a softer, more three-dimensional surface.