From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 07/10/01-12:56:32 AM Z
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Joe Portale wrote:
> The untoned salted paper picture is very fragile. You have raw silver
> halides in direct contact with the environment. An option would be to
> laquer the print to seal out the air. I do not know how this will effect the
> long term image stability. Although I have seen some salt prints from the
> 1860's that were laquered and they still looked pretty good. The color
> change in a photo image is the result of changes in the crystalin strucure
Joe, do you by any chance have a/the formula for that lacquer? I'm trying
to find a satisfactory way of lacquering or varnishing gums, not for
archival but for depth. So far experiments have been futile, but .....
hope springs eternal.
Judy
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