This year 2024 marks the 750th anniversary of the parchment that king Jaume I granted to the town of Vilanova, known as Carta Pobla de Vilanova (1274). Among other commemorative events, an exhibition has been prepared that displays the reproduction of the original document made in our workshop L'ESFERA.
Based on the high-resolution scanned images of the original document provided by the client, we made several printing tests in order to compare them with the original parchment, to be able to adjust the tones of the prints to achieve a result as similar as possible.
Once we got the print of the front and the back of the document on the final support, we began the manual task of silhouetting the copy, replicating the folds and holes, and reproducing the surface topography of the document. We also prepared a reproduction of the stamp (printed on stamp paper) and glued it in place to finish the job.
For more information: https://xac.gencat.cat/ca/llista_arxius_comarcals/garraf/detall/Carta-Pobla