Because it only lasted one day, the participants in our recent Washi workshop were unable to experience the joys of taking the sheets off the post and apply them to drying boards. Over the next couple of days we pressed…
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Handmade book for Rural Routes online auction
Just in time for July, I have completed the handmade book which will be auctioned off to help support our studio tour. It will be up for auction through the month of July at our Tour web site’s Auction page.…
Photos from the Washi workshop
Today we held a washi workshop for a lady and her two daughters (and their dog Willow, who was not paying much attention to the proceedings). The lack of names in this post is not because I’m trying for anonymity,…
Preparations for the Washi workshop
In preparation for the Washi workshop we are holding tomorrow, I had to scrounge for all the equipment involved. The last time I used all of this stuff was at the Yahoo Papermaking group’s east-coast gathering in 2010. Since at…
Monotype paint colour matching—Nailed it!
My use of a photo editor to measure the hue and saturation of the paint colours paid off. I had inferred that I had to add to my new paint a mix of two parts red and one part blue.…
Colour-matching Monotype Parts
In my projects to refurbish my Monotype pump and install a latch mechanism, I am now at the stage of needing to repaint some parts, and I am finding it to be a tricky job. For one thing, In can’t…
Papertrail Mould and Deckle Sets
I have started a tree of pages in this site to provide some details on some of our products. This tree can be reached through the “Products” link in the menu bar of any page. From there, links within the…
Public comments are now enabled
I’ve just changed our blog settings to allow anyone to comment on new postings. I hope I won’t be creating myself too much of a spam problem by doing so. I also issued a direct command to MySQL to enable…
Fiat Lux
I finally got new lighting installed in my basement workshop. The old lighting was essentially two single fixtures with 60- or 100-watt-equivalent CFL bulbs in them. The new lighting is 8 dual 48″ T8 fluorescent fixtures. To be fair, that…
Crossheads reinstalled on Monotype pump head
The two press-fit parts that I probably should never have disassembled on my Monotype caster pump head are now back together again. As mentioned in my previous post I had already reassembled the Pump Body Spring Rod 31H1 and its…
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