From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 01/10/03-11:02:44 AM Z
Katherine,
I think it's just that we intuit that we don't want a "wire" print surface,
but the felt side is rougher than the wire side. Of course the wire look
varies hugely from paper to paper. Some papers have a very "mechanical"
looking wire texture that I generally don't like, others are random and
somehow organic looking on the wire side. The felt side always winds up
lumpy-looking once the paper has been wetted. Perhaps a real paper expert
could provide more details about how the manufacturing process affects
this.---Carl
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>From: Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Felt vs Wire (was: Re: Stonehenge Paper)
>Date: Fri, Jan 10, 2003, 3:22 AM
>
> This brings to mind something I've puzzled about a long time and maybe
> someone can shed some light on it for me. It's always been my
> understanding that the "front" side of the paper is supposed to be the
> side from which the watermark reads the right way. But it also seems to
> me that the "wire" side should be the back side of the paper. I mean,
> who wants a wire pattern in their print? I sure don't. So why is it that
> for a lot of papers, the front side is the wire side? When I was using
> Arches aquarelle, I always printed on the back side of the paper for
> that reason. I had to give up Arches for other reasons that aren't
> important here, though I've never found another paper I like as well.
> Now I'm using Fabriano Uno, which is built the same way. The back side
> has too much texture for my needs, so I have to use the front side,
> which is the wire side. The wire texture is fairly small and unobtrusive
> in large prints, but sometimes I make contact prints from 4x5 negatives
> and in those, the wire texture becomes distracting. So my question is,
> why isn't the felt side always the front side, as (IMHO) it should be?
> Katharine Thayer
>
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