Did you know that all Royal Brites^® poster board is coated with graphic–arts quality coating?  Most of our competitors’ poster board is merely died. The smooth finish provides a brighter color, protects the poster board from fading in the sun and keeps the color from bleeding exposed to water.

Speaking about the color, Royal Brites® presents its patented line of Two Cool Colors® Poster Board made to create more eye-catching and imaginative possibilities for signs and signage, school projects, event announcements and arts and crafts.

The Unique Two Cool Colors® Poster Board uses two complementary colors back to back on a single poster board sheet to form a duo of bright, long-lasting and attractive colors.

Combinations include sparkling silver-gold, orange-black, red-green, blue-yellow, light blue-dark blue and fluorescent or neon color combinations.

The matched colors are ideal for adding attention-grabbing creativity to a multitude of projects, from street signs to classroom projects and card crafting.

Some ideas:

- Make beautiful cards using die- cutting tools. The inside card will show a different color.

- Cut out letters and numbers in different fonts and sizes, to use on both sides. Use pins for multiple uses.

- Create stunning business cards. Cut the poster board in 8.5×11” sheets. Print your cards using one of our free Business Cards templates. Print front and back.

- Create unique post cards for business or personal use.

Come up with your own ideas and become one of the winners of our Royal Club Weekly Contest. Your idea will be featured in the Royal Crafts and Ideas section or our store, for years to come.

Royal Brites^® Two Cool Colors® Poster Board. What a concept!

Lacework of the 15th Century Is Simulated

Belgian and French Designs Engraved on Paper Doilies
Article published in The New York Times, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1963.

Reproductions of priceless 15th century France and Belgium, many of them museum pieces, are appearing on 20th century dining room tables these days. They are in the form of white, gold and silver paper doilies, made through engraving skills rare in this country.

The handiwork of lace-makers of a bygone era is being reproduced in simulated lace for the Royal Lace Paper division of Standard Packaging Corporation by Fred Dittman, former Berlin engraver. Mr. Dittman has been fashioning intricate cylindrical steel dies for paper dies for Standard Packaging since 1930.

Engraving, one of the world’s oldest professions, is also a rapidly disappearing art. Only a handful of the craftsmen remain, in this country. Their work is demanding, time-consuming and painstaking.

It takes Fred Dittman from one to five months to complete a single die for turning out doilies, depending on the intricacy of the lace design. Lace is a delicate open-work fabric or network of threads of linen, silk or cotton. To simulate the patterns on paper, a die must be carved both to perforate and to give a plaited-thread texture such as enriches real lace.

Chemical processes are used to produce engravings for many purposes, but to make dies that will reproduce on paper historical lace designs from Europe requires skills cutting and embossing by hand.

Mr. Dittman makes and owns as his own tools. The dies he has shaped in the past 30 years, valued at more than $1,000,000 are stacked by the score at Royal Lace’s plant in Fort Wayne, In.

Each die produces literally millions of doilies. The paper lace doilies known as “Roylies,” are turned out in square, round, clover, heart and rectangular shapes and in a wide variety of sizes.

They are part of the Standard packaging line of throwaway paper products, which includes napkins, placemats, plastic-coated plates, cups, bowls and tissues. The company’s 28 divisions also make paper, plastic and foil packaging for the food processing industry.

This article was published in The New York Times on MONDAY, MAY 6, 1963.

After so many years, the Royal Lace® paper doilies are still being manufactured by the Royal Lace division using the dies crafted at the beginning of the 20^th century by engravers like Fred Dittman. Our Royal Lace® doilies are and remain among the most beautiful lace doilies in the world. They have become a historic testimony of the old times’ beauty and refinement. Call them “antique doilies” or “Royal doilies”. Today, Royal Lace® and Royal Brites® are brands of Royal Consumer Products, llc, a consumer paper products company owned by Mafcote, Inc.
Mafcote Inc. now, a 3^rd generation of business owners, continues the tradition of the over 100 year old business, giving the US market the best and the most innovative paper products. Besides the beautiful Royal Lace® paper doilies, the Royal Brites® poster board, a market leader, comes in plain and fluorescent or neon colors. The new TwoCool Colors™ poster board concept, two different colors in one poster board sheet is one of the many Mafcote patented concepts. Royal Brites®  has launched a new Display Board and Display Accessories line. A broad line of ink jet and photo paper consisting of recreational, business and photo paper for home, school and office is also available under the Royal Brites® brand name.
All Royal Lace® and Royal Brites® paper products are available at TheRoyalStore.com