The pods on my smaller tororo-aoi plants, at least the ones seeded indoors, have started to ripen.
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Whitlock Press Accessories—Installed
As the closing Monday of this year’s Marshville Heritage Festival started to wind down, I took the opportunity to install some accessories we had found for the Whitlock Pony press we operate on that site. As conjectured in the previous…
Found some Whitlock press accessories!
The Mackenzie Printery and Newspaper Museum maintains a Whitlock Pony press in Wainfleet, Ontario, in a building at the local Fairgrounds. Every Labour Day weekend, the Marshville Heritage Festival is held on the fairgrounds, and as part of that, we…
More tororo-aoi updates
One of the larger tororo-aoi plants seems to be dying back and losing all its leaves, though the pods are still on it and some are showing signs of ripening. The other large plants seem fine, so I don’t know…
Mackenzie Printery’s Albion Press
The Mackenzie Printery and Newspaper Museum in Queenston, Ontario has a small Albion press which needs a bit of work to get it into top form. The pull handle does not retract all the way when released, so it interferes…
Tororo-aoi Fast Growth (in the smoke)
My last post, from four days ago, only showed details of some of the plants. Here is what the tororo-aoi patch looks like overall: The difference between the four larger plants, the smaller indoor-sprouted medium plants, and the smallest direct-seeded…
Tororo-aoi in Bloom Already
Some of my tororo-aoi plants are already producing flowers, about 3 weeks after transplanting into the garden. The flowers don’t last long so I don’t have a photo of one in full bloom yet, but in one of the photos…
Growing Tororo-aoi Again
This year, after my encouraging results in workshops both at Bishop’s University last August and in Japan this March, I wanted to try growing my own tororo-aoi plants again. The roots of this plant are used to produce neri, a…
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Monotype Computer Interface—Complete at last!
After far too long the computer interface for my Monotype Composition Caster is complete. In this case, “complete” means that it is a single self-contained unit with no straggling wires. My last step was to add a housing/support bracket for…
Papermaking in Japan—Part 5
Other notes This is a bit of a wrap-up along with some reference links shared during the workshop Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Travel and sightseeing Part 3: Extracurricular activities Part 4: The actual papermaking workshop
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