From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 04/05/00-11:15:26 AM Z
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Ray Rogers wrote:>
> One Question, slightly off this threads topic:
> While on the topic of leaves, does any one out there
> know the name of the process used to make 'Leaf Lace'?
> (my term) Or know the process itself? The Indians and
> or the Chinese make beautiful paintings on large
> leaves which they either wait for natural
> 'skeletonizing' or, more likely, treat somehow to
> remove all of the leaf 'meat' leaving only the
> veins... which they then bleach; as the veins are very
> fine, one has a very delicate canvas upon which to
> paint or for our interest, sensitize and print upon.
>
> Ray
>
Oh wow! So that's name of the thrift-shop treasure I have on the wall-- a
spade shaped leaf, about 7 inches tip to stem, with a picture of a cowboy
on horseback picked out in silhouette. I don't have a clue how it was
done, except that it seems dried and somehow selectively brushed.
Definitely a "delicate canvas" tho suggests more use as a "negative" to
print through, than to actually print on.
Judy
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