Very interesting series. One thing you might play with is drying on different surfaces. Paper dried on glass is a bit too neat at times. If you try drying it after spreading it flat on top of a net linen drying rack, some papers stay flat but develop a nice vintage wrinkle, adding to the handmade impression. Keep up the series.
Oh, I forgot to mention... the Inbe paper has a very very fine parallel line pattern based on the way it is dried when manufactured. We are discovering other properties as we go forward. For now the Kozo papers seem to have the longest, strongest fibers that have the most interesting internal structures that are most visible in the thin varieties (obviously in intimate viewing distances). A lot of the reason we do this is so that we can give real, practical advice to our in-person workshop participants when they ask questions and secondarily so we can share summaries here... always better in person with real work and specific images to be discussed.
We have other surfaces on our agenda... we'll definitely get to that. We're pretty excited about the ability to fine-tune the surface texture after printing...
Love the very concept of experimenting as play. Happy children play. Grumpy adults work. They both learn, I vote for play!
Just found this newsletter, and I'm excited to learn more. I've always liked the idea of working with diifferent types of paper.
We hope you stick around, we've got big big plans for 2024... we hope. Have a happy new year.
Very interesting series. One thing you might play with is drying on different surfaces. Paper dried on glass is a bit too neat at times. If you try drying it after spreading it flat on top of a net linen drying rack, some papers stay flat but develop a nice vintage wrinkle, adding to the handmade impression. Keep up the series.
Oh, I forgot to mention... the Inbe paper has a very very fine parallel line pattern based on the way it is dried when manufactured. We are discovering other properties as we go forward. For now the Kozo papers seem to have the longest, strongest fibers that have the most interesting internal structures that are most visible in the thin varieties (obviously in intimate viewing distances). A lot of the reason we do this is so that we can give real, practical advice to our in-person workshop participants when they ask questions and secondarily so we can share summaries here... always better in person with real work and specific images to be discussed.
We have other surfaces on our agenda... we'll definitely get to that. We're pretty excited about the ability to fine-tune the surface texture after printing...