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Re: Re : Mordancage: background .....





On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, roger.kockaerts wrote:

> 
> L.P.Clerc in his "La technique Photographique" of the 1930's refers in his
> chapter on 'Généralités sur les virages par teinture sur mordançage'that
> R. Namias (1909-1911) suggested the use, as mordants, of different metallic
> ferrocyanides and that, after a publication by J.I. Crabtree (1917) the
> practical use of copper ferrocyanide was formulated.
> 
> Probably Pierre Cordier (a long time friend from way back in the 1950's)
> refered to Namias when he mentioned the mordançage process to Judy.


Oh Roger, why are you doing this to me -- now I'm going to have to go dig
up that file. But rest assured, the name Cordier mentioned as name of the
process was *Mariage* -- I wrote it down at the time. I'd heard the name
"Namias" previously, and would have recognized it in this context, which I
didn't because it wasn't.  I believe, however, that one of the tattered
photo copies in the file, from some print source or other, is titled
"Mariage."

OK, OK... meanwhile, the lack of a single word of feedback about Kwikprint
I take to mean lack of interest? (Or for the English speaking persons on
this list: "Meanwhile, I take the lack of a single word of feedback about
Kwikprint to mean lack of interest.")


Judy


> 
> Anyway the term "mordançage" seems to be born in France before the time of
> the admirable person who was J.P.Sudre.
> 
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> Roger
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