[alt-photo] Re: printing on silk

[Ken Sinclair]

Kerik,

I have made numerous non-silver prints on cotton over the past 20 years.

It took some hunting to find a fine enough natural 'white' cotton that was suitable.
It was then hand-washed twice to remove any 'sizing'… well rinsed and allowed
to dry. Careful ironing to smooth out the material before it was cut to size
with 'pinking' shears.

Double coating before exposing produced some very nice quality images that 
(since the material was cut 'oversize') allowed for a wrap-around mounting on 
wooden stretchers for 'hanging' on the wall.

Ken

On 2012-10-24, at 6:57 AM, Kerik Kouklis <kerik at kerik.com> wrote:

> I believe Jeffrey printed on cotton cloth rather than silk. 
> 
> -Kerik
> www.kerik.com
> 
> On Oct 24, 2012, at 1:28 AM, <C.Breukel at lumc.nl> wrote:
> 
>> Marek,
>> 
>> Once there was an austere sage on Pt printing on the list: Jeffrey D. Mathias.
>> 
>> He used to have a web side up with a very thorough and detailed  protocol on platinum printing as well as examples on silk screens.
>> 
>> The web ( http://home.att.net/~jeffrey.d.mathias  )site is gone since 2009 or so, but the Way Back Machine has several mirrors at oa:
>> 
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20051218020555/http://home.att.net/~jeffrey.d.mathias/folding_screens.htm
>> 
>> If you poke around there maybe you can dig up valuable information..
>> 
>> Good luck,
>> 
>> Cor
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: alt-photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org [mailto:alt-
>>> photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org] On Behalf Of Marek
>>> Matusz
>>> Sent: woensdag 24 oktober 2012 4:30
>>> To: alt photo
>>> Subject: [alt-photo] printing on silk
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I want to print some palladium and cyanotype on silk. I have tried a few silks,
>>> but nothing really woked for me for palladium. I got one silk to be pretty
>>> decent for cyanotype, but not quite happy. I do recall from some time ago
>>> seeing a very nice palladium print on silk in the exchange portfolio. Can
>>> anybody help with sepcific silk recommendations? Marek
>>> 
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