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RE: fading Ware's cyanotypes
> With Herschel cyans we find it best to use cheap machine made =
> cartridge paper as contains more acid and all sorts of =
> other crap. The cheaper and nastier the paper the better.
One of the most impressive cyanotypes I've seen was done on photographic
background paper, I think after it had got too dirty to use in the studio.
I seem to recall being told the sensitiser was applied from a bucket using
a large household broom.
It was a photogram rather than a photograph - there would have been
problems making a negative big enough.
Peter Marshall
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