Rough Paper

Rough paper is naturally "loft" dried by hanging in the air. It is also called coarse or antique paper. The rough surface is created naturally by allowing the paper to shrink during drying or by minimal pressing after sheet formation. It gives a scratchy, unsatisfying appearance to the sheet.

The rough paper is more pliant and is uniquely useful in binding. It is exciting to paint and to see a finished painting on a rough paper that is aesthetically alive. On the rough paper colors settle into the hollows making it ideal for expressionist, abstract and a painterly look. It is superb for adding effects to landscape and seascape paintings. Rough sheets are usually the most absorbent, and therefore produce the smoothest washes even with granulating pigments

Its primary disadvantage is that it is not dimensionally stable and it may expand more than other papers during pasting or other dampening and humidification treatments. It does not accept a fused dry ink, it will rub or flake off. Using textured paper can lead to missing images.