[alt-photo] Re: I know, another sizing question

[Paul Viapiano]

The rabbit-skin glue is a traditional sizing prep for canvas.

Bone glue (the small pearls mentioned) has many uses, one of which casein 
printer Lukas Werth utilizes to adhere his paper to a glass substrate to 
eliminate shrinkage and hold good registration for subsequent layers, much 
in the manner of Keith Taylor's use of Fusion adhesive to aluminum sheets.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Loris Medici" <mail at loris.medici.name>
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Subject: [alt-photo] Re: I know, another sizing question


> Oh, I forget to mention instrument making and furniture; they use bone
> glue extensively also in these crafts...
>
> 2010/9/12 Loris Medici <mail at loris.medici.name>:
>> To my knowing, skin/bone glue (as they call it) is mainly used in
>> bookbinding. They still use it to glue hardcovers in a friend's print
>> shop... It doesn't want to melt quickly and smells horrible - at least
>> the sample I have on hands is so... (I guess it's low quality stuff.)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Loris.
>>
>>
>> 2010/9/12 henk thijs <henk.thijs at hetnet.nl>:
>>> ...
>>> By the way, be sure you buy the rabbitSKIN and not the 'general 
>>> skin/bone glue'
>>> without mentioning 'rabbit', i bought once the stuff looking like small 
>>> pearls , and
>>> they told me it was 'nearly' the same as the rabbit-skin stuff. It 
>>> wasn't , not for gum,
>>> and not for inkjet printing.
>>> BOESNER in germany sell rabbitskin glue as 'technical gelatine' , 
>>> whatever that means.
>>> cheers,
>>
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