Essdee

The Essdee brand is synonymous with Fine Quality British Scraperboard, which has been made in the UK for over 75 years. The brand was originally created when a commercial art studio in Sheffield, England were unable to obtain Scraperboard from a manufacturer in Austria during World War 2. Stanley Dickson, who owned the studio, formulated his own Scraperboard product, which was essential for newspaper illustration at the time, and lent his initials to create the brand 'Essdee'.

Quoted from essdee.co.uk, in Essdee's own words. We have not edited it and we do not vouch for it.