re/mordancage

Nze christian (113410.2751@compuserve.com)
Wed, 07 Jan 1998 05:44:20 -0500

At 12:28 AM 1/7/98 +0100, Jacques Verschuren wrote:
>Some time ago i came across the French word mordançage. It seems to be a
>process, which was (or still is ) in use in France, maybe by some fine
>art photographers. Are there alt-process members, who are familiar with
>the process or who may have more information? Information would be
>highly appreciated.
>
>Jacques Verschuren

hello

like says jonathan this process was often used by j-c sudre (died last
year)
and by the fact well known by him.

the mordancage is a sort of toning, in fact it' a real toning .

the first step is like a toning
put a print in the following solution:
water 800
copper sulfate 20g
potassium or sodium citrate 60 to 100 g
acetic acid 30 cmc
ammonium sulfocyannate 10g
water to make 1 l
look at the processing and when the picutre don't change any more

wash it water till there is no more color in the white border area

that's the mordancage

after that you must do the dying of the print

with a dye solution as this one

water 800ml
acetic acetic 2 to 10 ml(if white color add more acid)
dye 0.05g to 2 g

the dye you can use
methyl violet
cocceine orange
green sulfo 2 b
green naphtol
amarante for pink
violet acid 5 b

Nze christian