Baren Digest              Sunday, 23 February 2003      Volume 22 : Number 2139


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From: baren_member#barenforum.org (Julio Rodriguez)
Date: 22 Feb 2003 14:38:35 -0000
Subject: [Baren 20810] Sheep/Goats page has been updated 


comments:  Hi folks, the page for the 2003 new year cards has been 
updated...Jan, I will get your print up asap....

http://www.skokienet.org/bandits/jcrstuff/blacksheep/snames.
html

thanks...Julio


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From: Dan Dew <ddew0001#tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 10:07:20 -0500
Subject: [Baren 20811] Re: Sheep/Goats page has been updated 

uh oh, bad link.

d. dew


> From: baren_member#barenforum.org (Julio Rodriguez)
> Reply-To: baren#ml.asahi-net.or.jp
> Date: 22 Feb 2003 14:38:35 -0000
> To: baren#ml.asahi-net.or.jp
> Subject: [Baren 20810] Sheep/Goats page has been updated
> 
> Below is the result of your feedback form.
> It was submitted by baren_member#barenforum.org (Julio Rodriguez) on:
> Saturday, February, 22, 2003 at 09:38:35
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> comments:  Hi folks, the page for the 2003 new year cards has been
> updated...Jan, I will get your print up asap....
> 
> http://www.skokienet.org/bandits/jcrstuff/blacksheep/snames.
> html
> 
> thanks...Julio
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------



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From: Myron Turner <mturner#Ms.UManitoba.CA>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 10:42:48 -0600
Subject: [Baren 20812] Re: Sheep/Goats page has been updated 

You just have to re-attach ".html" to the end of the link.:  sname.html

Myron

At 10:07 AM 22/02/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>uh oh, bad link.
>
>d. dew
>

> > From: baren_member#barenforum.org (Julio Rodriguez)
> > Reply-To: baren#ml.asahi-net.or.jp
> > Date: 22 Feb 2003 14:38:35 -0000
> > To: baren#ml.asahi-net.or.jp
> > Subject: [Baren 20810] Sheep/Goats page has been updated
> >
> > Below is the result of your feedback form.
> > It was submitted by baren_member#barenforum.org (Julio Rodriguez) on:
> > Saturday, February, 22, 2003 at 09:38:35
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > comments:  Hi folks, the page for the 2003 new year cards has been
> > updated...Jan, I will get your print up asap....
> >
> > http://www.skokienet.org/bandits/jcrstuff/blacksheep/snames.
> > html
> >
> > thanks...Julio
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------



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From: "nancy osadchuk" <nosadchuk#hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:06:54 -0700
Subject: [Baren 20813] birthday girl 

 I am guessing  42...date and month of my birthday. Just back
 from Mexico to find more New Year's prints in a huge pile of
 mail....all so exciting and  different. Now back to the
 woodblock...might as well, it finally snowed while away and is
 now cold...minus (sounds better in Fahrenheit, only 0
 or so). ....Nancy O.
 
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From: "April Vollmer" <april#aprilvollmer.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:58:19 -0500
Subject: [Baren 20814] hide glue 

Julio, I bet it was the animal glue in the sumi ink!

Dogs love it.

Also, I thought I'd mention I went to a very interesting one day workshop on
Tibetan paper here in NYC. Someone (Sharon?) notified me, and I followed up.
We spent the morning making dyes from walnut, tea, pomegranate, safflower,
indigo and charcoal. Then we spent the afternoon dying sheets of Tibetan
paper.

It is similar to Japanese washi, but made from a different plant fiber
(Daphne). It looks coarser, with a shiny surface, and is very flexible when
wet. The teacher, Jim Canary, brought wood blocks with him, which was why I
wanted to take the class. The blocks were amazing, a hard wood, something
from the southern forests of Tibet. They were beautifully cut with dense
patterns of traditional Tibetan subjects. He also brought sutra blocks, cut
with characters for the Buddhist religious texts.

Jim has a background in letterpress, so the poor thing was printing these
lovely blocks oil base! Fortunately I had brought a couple of barens and
brushes. He was kind enough to make me some crude sumi ink from charcoal,
yak glue and water, and I showed him how the blocks were meant to be
printed! (Tibetan technique is different than Japanese, of course, but at
least it's in the same family.)

A great day, I learned a lot about the wider family of waterbase block
printing. I put some photos up at www.aprilvollmer.com/canary

April


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From: mjbohlen#crosslink.net (Real Name)
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 15:54:26 -0500
Subject: [Baren 20815] Re: hide glue 

Dear April, 
What a fun day!! I love working with natural dyes and handmade paper.
New York has so much to offer.
Mary Jane Bohlen



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From: mjbohlen#crosslink.net (Real Name)
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 16:03:23 -0500
Subject: [Baren 20816] Re: hide glue 

Thanks for sharing the photos. I like the "canary" yellow background.
That was a very interesting looking roller (the blue object).
Where was the workshop held?
Mary Jane Bohlen



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From: Wanda <robertson#canby.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:03:35 -0800
Subject: [Baren 20817] Re: hide glue 

on 2/22/03 11:58 AM, April Vollmer at april#aprilvollmer.com wrote:

<snip>

> brushes. He was kind enough to make me some crude sumi ink from charcoal,
> yak glue and water, and I showed him how the blocks were meant to be
> printed! (Tibetan technique is different than Japanese, of course, but at
> least it's in the same family.)
> 
> A great day, I learned a lot about the wider family of waterbase block
> printing. I put some photos up at www.aprilvollmer.com/canary
> 

This was wonderful to hear about, April. I was watching Nova on PBS the
other night & they had a great story about the country of Mustang (pronouced
"Moostang" by the people)  In one part they were printing prayer cloths to
hang in the wind to blow prayers toward what used to be Tibet (before the
Chinese invasion). They applied the pigment to the carved blocks with a
brush similar to our hanga brushes - placed the fabric on the block & then
rolled over it with a brayer-type roller about the same witdth as the block.
Then the pieces were peeled off the block & hung in long strings across the
area.  

It is a really fascinating program - to find more info, you might try
<pbs.org/ and look for the Nova programs.

Wanda

> 
> 



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From: Wanda <robertson#canby.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:07:26 -0800
Subject: [Baren 20818] Re: hide glue 

on 2/22/03 11:58 AM, April Vollmer at april#aprilvollmer.com wrote:


> www.aprilvollmer.com/canary


Aha! I just went and looked at the photos - and the Mustang people had used
the crude roller as their printing press! I wonder if it has always been
used that way? The ink was applied with a brush, scrubbed on as in hanga.

Wanda


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From: "April Vollmer" <april#aprilvollmer.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 18:19:34 -0500
Subject: [Baren 20819] Drink Locally

http://www.toolsforworkingwood.com/Merchant/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Co
de=toolshop&Category_Code=THS

At the Tibetan paper class, I met a tool maker who recommended this 3M paper
for sharpening without investing in expensive waterstones. Sounds great for
teaching. Has anyone used this stuff?

April
www.aprilvollmer.com

"Think Globally, Drink Locally"


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From: FurryPressII#aol.com
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 03:55:02 EST
Subject: [Baren 20820] Re: Cherry Wood 

the dremel zzzzzzz  is better than anything my human teenagers listen on 
there cd's
 dremel or other tool seems to work on endgrain or corain   

john center

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