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saw your PechaKucha - e nice introduction for people who are new to our hobby!
However: no hand colouring was involved at all. That would have made the prints extremely expensive. Instead, a machine was developed for what we now call screen printing (much applied on textiles, tiles etc.) You may like to have a look at this: Free Pages Personnelles: Erreur 404 - Document non trouvé We visited the Epinal museum some years a go and saw the machine actually working. Procedure: 1. black and white print is made with the lithograph method. 2. up to nine colours are selected; templates are cut out of thin copper sheet by means of an old Singer sewing machine, converted to a jig saw. 3. the templates are then fitted on the machine in the picture, one after the other. 4. the black and white print is fed into the machine, which moves it to the first position. Thetemplate is lowered onto the print, and a mechanically operated roller applies the first colour. The print then moves to the second position, the second colour is added, etcetera. Apart from the (French only!) introduction to the whole procedure, the museum was slightly disappointing - and they had only one or two modern reprints of paper models. So OK if you are in the area, but don't make a special trip for this… |
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Diderick: thanks for the explanation! I wish I could go sometime. I would like to see the machine in action. It's difficult for me to imagine how the watercolor is applied with a roller since the pigment is in suspension and would collect very quickly on the underside. If it were gouache, I think it would be a different story, but even then, they used brushes when doing pochoir.
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It didn't look like watercolour - more like a thick ink.
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