Studio: international art (3.1894)

Woodcut Printing in Water-Colours

mishap are certainly lessened by rubbing the block wick and Whatman papers take the printed colour,
with glycerine before laying on the colour. But it is difficult to rub sufficiently hard without

in brass in wrought iron in copper

" Then with regard to shifting the register. With

the printing and the paper. * these papers I expect a

The Japanese prints are ^gS^ "m* printing-press would give a

not done with a press, but ■ >>i £>. /^Af^TA Hk much better result,

are merely rubbings. I \ Li Ivy) Y\ "The first experiments

have tried my experiments ^—^ A^s_^^^_>*> m anv new method are

in the same way. Here ' ^\ -XT"^ inevitably failures, and

the difference between \ Cji 1 when one man is working

Japanese paper and Eng- £-—^Jr" n alone the number of petty

lish paper makes itself felt. If _ ■ failures he encounters in

The former needs only to f j an attempt to secure suc-

be slightly damped, and it / cess for some trivial detail,

will take a print quite easily / is apt to dishearten him;

by being laid on the block %/ 9 but if a number of men

and rubbed by the palm of 1 who are working at the

the hand, or else quite J\ same problem are willing

lightly with some harder to make known any solu-

surface. The latter re- tion of a difficulty they

quires to be soaked for a ^ht encounter, I believe when

long time, and then rubbed 'rt*^pZuii-?^^ - a11 tlle results of the'r varied

very hard. There is a very yr experience were brought

pleasant quality (but quite • ' \ together, the technical

different from the Japanese) JN WR0UGHT 1R0N ^ difficulties would soon
in the way in which Cres- fig. n.—four electric-light fittings by h. pepper vanish."