Re: Gum arabic with Cyanotype emulsion

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From: Randall Webb (randall.webb@lineone.net)
Date: 01/25/01-01:58:12 AM Z

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From: Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Cc: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: Gum arabic with Cyanotype emulsion

Judy wrote

> I've learned not to generalize from the particular in anything alt (tho
> sometimes in life?) -- however I did try a cyanotype formula with gum
> arabic addedfrom some "expert" book or other.
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> Feh !!
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> It might help if some other conditions are lousy, sort of even things out.
> Or let's say, it MAY have done something for someone sometime -- tho the
> first cause lost in the mists of time, as far as I can tell...
>
> Judy

Gum with cyanotype seems like a case of one person in the 19C trying it and
everyone else copying blindly. A bit like using pole cat fitches for
bromoil. What did Herschel say about it?
Randall Webb
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