Re: Newbie Gum fun Continued

[Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:

> Yup I did; if you remember the convo about this from a couple years back, not 
> only did I soak it, I soaked it ALL DAY.  No budge.
> Chris
Hmmmm... but you didn't soak it in NYC water!  Maybe I should send you 
some?

J.




> > > I also had a funny--a former student donated her alt supplies to the 
> > > department and in there was a stack of sized paper hardened with glyoxal 
> > > (former professor's method) and it was butterscotch yellow, I kid you not, 
> > > so if you use glyoxal as a size hardener, be sure to use the paper right 
> > > away to prevent this. Or do Judy's method of sizing and hardening and then 
> > > rinsing it.  The former professor did teach a separate hardener bath, 
> > > even, but this still produced crummy paper.  Go to this URL and scroll 
> > > down and see what yellowing looks like.
> > > http://czaphotography.com/show.php?what=learning&which=1
> >
> >
> > > About the 10th image down is a comparison of yellowing.  I know, this page 
> > > is not a "pretty sight" but Jacek can also see spotty Arches paper on 
> > > here, too, that I photographed through my kitchen screen door to show the 
> > > translucent spots, and the perils of using too hot water to shrink, etc. 
> > > etc. including a downloadable free gum process paper.
> >
> > Christina.... did you try soaking that "butterscotch" paper? I've found 
> > that generally speaking just leaving it face down in room temp plain water 
> > for an hour or a day does get it back to white...
> >
> > J.