On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Katharine Thayer wrote:
> My position on "redevelopment" is that if the gum is properly hardened
> it shouldn't be soluble once dry; to say the same thing another way, if
> it IS soluble when dry, it hasn't been properly hardened. I live in a
> damp climate and th idea of prints made of soluble gum makes me shudder,
> but perhaps that's just me.
I think this is a false analogy. The mechanism is a very long soak in
water. The gum isn't *soluble* and the long soak doesn't make it soluble,
but softens it so that it becomes *abradable* -- in the same way that
tempera or watercolor paint on a perfectly fine and archival painting
could be softened and become abradable after a long soak in water.
Judy
Received on Mon Jul 12 21:39:55 2004
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