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    Re: post alternative techniques

    The decayed soft flesh around ripe walnuts may work very well. It stains hands a beautiful chocolate brown for weeks after they have been collecting fallen walnuts. I have been thinking of using it as pigment for carbon prints but its the wrong time here.

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    Re: post alternative techniques

    There was a thriving tan oak bark industry here in the past -- trees stripped and the bark sent by ship down to San Francisco for the cowhide tanning industry. Still plenty of them around. Easier to use tea, but it is a fun thought!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vaughn View Post
    There was a thriving tan oak bark industry here in the past -- trees stripped and the bark sent by ship down to San Francisco for the cowhide tanning industry. Still plenty of them around. Easier to use tea, but it is a fun thought!
    yes - we got the "idea" seeing in tv a guy that wanted to tan cowhide the old way...

    I think it is as easy as "normal" tea - even better as we here know what to get... and it is a quick process to make the oak tree tea...

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    I have now tried walnut snaps... (walnut in vodka for about 6 months), and it gives a very deep beautiful brown tone - especially in the highlights..

    A shame it taste so good...

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    examples of oak tree toning:


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    Emil do you "bleach" in e.g a NaOH solution prior to toning?
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    Quote Originally Posted by soeren View Post
    Emil do you "bleach" in e.g a NaOH solution prior to toning?
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    no. Not in this case, but I'll experiment with that too..

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    Hi Emil,
    I'm happy with my cyanotypes so far and I've found that soaking in a tannic acid solution gives me a tone that I prefer up until now but Ithink that your oak toned prints look better. Once you've gathered your oak bark what do you soak it in to extract the pigment?
    Best wishes,
    Pete.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pete Watkins View Post
    Hi Emil,
    I'm happy with my cyanotypes so far and I've found that soaking in a tannic acid solution gives me a tone that I prefer up until now but Ithink that your oak toned prints look better. Once you've gathered your oak bark what do you soak it in to extract the pigment?
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    it is very simple - I made "tea" aka boiling water on the bark and let it stand there to cool. The bottle with the tea is still filled with the bark.... (I suppose it will start to rut at some time..)

    Fun!

    I am going to experiment with walnut next...

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    Thanks so much Emil.
    Pete.

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