jeffbuck@swcp.com
Date: 01/10/03-12:06:36 PM Z
Another point to throw into the inquiry here: How do these phenomena relate
to hot- and cold-press? ... -jb
Carl Weese <cweese@earthlink.net> said:
> 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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