From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 02/24/00-02:01:16 AM Z
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Gary Miller wrote:
> Other good sizings to try would be acrylic gel medium added to the pulp
> water or into the Hollander beater, or methyl cellulose, or
> hydroxyethylcellulose. These would all be used as internal sizing agents,
> although the methyl cellulose and gel medium can be used as external sizing
> agents too. You would thin them down with water and apply with a foam brush
> preferably. These agents will not yellow and should not interact with the
> alternative process substance. You can size both internally and externally.
>
> Gary Miller
>
This sounds like the best advice you'll get, & permit me to add that any
advice more *specific* than that is dubious, because the relationship
between paper, emulsion, size and process is (in my experience at least)
very particular -- change one variable and the whole deal changes. For
instance, it's handmade paper. Of what? What's the existing size? etc.
etc.
A couple other things might be worth trying:
A coat of something on the *back* of the paper to stabilize and firmify
it.
Aquapel
And gelatin -- silver apparently likes it.
(My own use of boiled starch was disaster, but that was with VDB.)
Judy
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