RE: searching for the elusive cyanotype rex

Hi Charles.

Maybe you should contact Terry King directly
(http://www.hands-on-pictures.com/html/bluehow_05.html). I'm not
completely sure but probably also a gold compound is involved with that
process.

Regards,
Loris.

-----Original Message-----
From: ryberg [mailto:cryberg@comcast.net]
Sent: 12 Aralık 2005 Pazartesi 01:16
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: searching for the elusive cyanotype rex

    Last October someone posted a summary of an article in a British
magazine named AG. The summary offered enough information to make me
interested but not enough to try it so I bought the magazine. The
article by Michael Maunder says that a sheet of paper coated only with a
solution of ferric ammonium citrate can be much faster than the
traditional cyanotype mixture of FAC and potassium ferricyanide. To
take advantage of this speed one developes by brushing on a solution of
potassium ferrOcyanide--NOT the usual ferric salt.
    I finally located some of the fairly obscure ferrous salt and tried.
Several times. I emailed Mr. Maunder who could not find anything wrong
with the process as I described what I did. He suggested that I might
be using a better quality of paper and that I should try plain old copy
paper, which I did. No luck. I could give details of what Maunder
says to do but I hesitate to offer the list information which I can't
make work.
    Has anyone ever read anything about this process? Is it related to
the
much praised but NEVER described cyanotype rex I suspect that is a
non-existant beast.
Charles Portland Or
Received on Mon Dec 12 01:39:06 2005