Re: Finnish Exhibit, Cyanotypes, and Tannic Acid

Jan Pietrzak (jpptprnt@gte.net)
Tue, 09 Jun 1998 23:12:37 +0000

Francis,

You might try this

Tannic acid bath (blue/brown to purple)

5min in tannic acid followed by soaking the print in sodium
carbonate then wash the print.

Tannic acid 6 grams
Water 180 ml

Sodium carbonate 6 grams
Water 180 ml

give this a try, as I remember I once mixed this up using Sodium
bicarbonate with out much differance.

from 1 of those 500 lurkers that Sullivan talks about
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