Millford Watercolour Paper is a distinctive English watercolour paper made by St Cuthberts Mill. It is professionally made on a traditional cylinder mould machine from 100% cotton and is deliberately hard-sized, giving it a high degree of water resistance. Its recipe contains no animal products.
The randomly arranged cotton fibres help the sheet remain flatter when wet, improving resistance to buckling and curling. Its surface is formed using natural woollen felts, creating a distinctive random texture. Made to high archival standards, both sides of the sheet can be used.
Millford is engineered to keep water on the surface for longer, allowing the paper to remain in a glassy wet state before slowly drying. This makes it especially suited to smooth flat washes, vivid colour retention, multiple glazes, and colour lifting techniques that bring the white of the paper forward in the finished painting.
