Reusing Sweet Papers

Today I did a bit of preparation for printing. It’s a technique called chine collé, where you put colour into a print using pieces of fine paper (tissue, mulberry etc…) or foils. I used the polished wooden spoon to burnish the foils – they’re recycled from sweets and biscuits so they’re crinkly and I want them smoother to print on. I cut the shapes with the scissors and stuck them onto the paper (Liber-Charta 145gsm) with Pritt stick glue. They’re ready for over-printing with a lino block and black ink now. I guess I’ll do that sometime over the weekend.