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===Founders Innovation and Impact===

[[File:Paul Sandby - A View of Vinters at Boxley, Kent, with Mr. Whatman's Turkey Paper Mills - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''Mr. Whatman's Turkey Paper Mills'' by [[Paul Sandby]] (1794)]]

Founded in 1740 in [[Maidstone]], [[Kent]], England, Whatman paper was created by papermaker [[James Whatman (papermaker)|James Whatman]] the Elder (1702–1759). He made revolutionary advances to the craft in England and is credited as the inventor of [[wove paper]] (or Vélin), an innovation used for high quality art and printing. The techniques continued to be developed by his son, James Whatman the Younger (1741–1798).<ref name="Roberts">{{cite book|last1=Roberts|first1=Matt T. |last2=Etherington|first2=Don|title=Bookbinding and the conservation of books: A dictionary of descriptive terminology|url=httphttps://cool.conservation-usarchive.org/dondetails/dt/dt3773.htmlbookbindingconse0000robe|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|isbn=978-0-8444-0366-3 |chapter=Whatman, James (1741–1798)|date=2011-11-19|accessdate=2016-09-02|url-access=registration}}</ref> At a time when the craft was based in smaller [[paper mill]]s, his innovations led to the large scale and widespread industrialisation of paper manufacturing.

Whatman had been approached by [[John Baskerville]], who needed paper that would take a light impression of the printing plate; this was used for the edition of Virgil's poetry, embellished with Baskerville's typography and designs.<ref name="Roberts"/> The earliest examples of wove paper, bearing his [[watermark]], appeared after 1740.<ref name="NGA">{{cite web|url=http://nga.gov.au/Conservation/Watermarks/listing.cfm|title=Watermark and countermark library|year=2010|work=Conservation|publisher=[[National Gallery of Australia]]|accessdate=2010-11-29}}</ref>