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Message 1
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:34:48 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43205] baren wrapping
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Annie,
I read your blog on your first attempt at wrapping the baren and it made me
laugh out loud....Mine was mostly tape by the time I wrapped it again.
I have tried several different things and found tyvek paper worked ok if you
were careful to always use a slip sheet...it got wet otherwise.
Dave Bull helped me wrap one in St Louis and that was when I really learned...I
also learned you have to be darn strong to hold it so now I have my husband help
hold it and it makes a huge difference to have 4 hands. So anyone who is having
issues with this, don't give up, you can do it. We need these tools so we have
to figure it out!
I think McClains will send them out to be wrapped for you, she showed me a
bottle cap wrapped as a baren by the gal who does it...it was darn cute and made
me groan with envy.
My best to all
Barbara

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Message 2
From: Graham Scholes
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:02:29 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43206] Re: baren wrapping
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It is time like this that I would like to be able to, with a twinkle of the nose, be at your side to help with Baren tying.
I recall the first time I did it .... it was unrecognizable as a bamboo husk on a disk.
After the second, third forth time it began to resemble an useable tool.

Secret... the more time you tie them the better it gets... Now I find it is a walk in the park.
I recognize one of the issues is hand strength to hold things in place while continuing on with the other half of the operation.
Clamp... use a clamp as a third hand .... which is what you need.

To refresh you memory Barbara... I show and demonstrated at Boot Camp... (workshops) the method of tying using a piece of material that was equivalent in bulk/weight to a bamboo husk. This is really important in two respects.... You don't waste hard to get bamboo husks and you can practice every day until you get the mind/muscles/method down pat.

Is it Murphy's Law.... If you think it is hard - it will be. If you think it is easy - it will be. Or is that the Peter Principle.

Graham

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Message 3
From: "Ellen Shipley"
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:53:18 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43207] Re: Mildew
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Great advice on mildew. Even tho I live in a dry clime I went and aired out my print storage when I read this thread!

A word about bleach and peroxide. I know from my fiber dyeing days that bleach takes color away and peroxide stops the action. But both are harsh on cloth and I assume paper as well. Perhaps paper can be rinsed somehow with clear water afterward? Blotted or dabbed?

Ellen

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Message 4
From: ArtfulCarol # aol.com
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:42:16 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43208] Arrival of McClains Paper
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Thank you to McClains for the paper just received--Masa Dosa, sized and
recommended for printing with water based inks.
Before the McClain delivery, I had immediately started and struggled with
hand printing on very heavy dampened paper. I completed some of them for
the Japan Relief Fund. Now I look forward to continuing easier and
faster. I need to experiment to find out whether to dampen or not and the
combination of nori, water, and ink.
Print on...
Carol Lyons

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Message 5
From: "bobcatpath # 207me.com"
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:40:06 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43209] RE: New Baren Digest (Text) V55 #5591 (Apr 16, 2011)
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hi sharon

reply is b

it is 3/4's carved

should print and mail this coming week

probably by good friday !!

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Message 6
From: "bobcatpath # 207me.com"
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:07:13 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43210] oops
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sorry
i thot that was an off- list email for exch# 48
to which i was replying

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Message 7
From: April Vollmer
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:47:43 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43211] Anderson Ranch Report/Demos and classes
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I just returned from a 10 week residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. My proposal was to combine digital with woodblock printing, and I was able to print on some fine washi that worked also for woodblock. https://picasaweb.google.com/aprilvollmer/AndersonRanchResidency?feat=directlink this is a link to the photos from my residency.

I also have a bunch of teaching coming up if anyone would like the schedule:
April 30 and May 1, 2011: Brooklyn Botanic Garden Sakura Matsuri
Mokuhanga Demonstrations from 3:00 to 4:00 on Saturday and Sunday

May 7 and 8, 2011: Center for Contemporary Printmaking
weekend workshop in Norwalk, CT 06850-4002
(203) 899-7999

July 11 to 15, 2011: Frogman's Print & Paper Workshops
Warren M. Lee Center for Fine Arts at the University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

August 6 & 7, 2011: MECA, Maine College of Art
weekend summer class in Portland, ME
Maine College of Art

September 1 to October 6, 2011: Lower East Side Printshop
six Thursday evenings at 306 West 37th Street
www.printshop.org

Best wishes to all for MY month!

April
www.aprilvollmer.com

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Message 8
From: Graham Scholes
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:53:25 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43212] Re: Anderson Ranch Report/Demos and classes
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Wonderful work.... actually Exceptional work.

Glad I was not there.... as I am sure I would rent the boards and gone back to downhill....
Such a fun site...

Thanks,
Graham

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Message 9
From: Monica Bright
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:40:57 GMT
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