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Cyanotype – the classic process

Cyanotype process – a modified extract from the book Blueprint to cyanotypes describing the classic or traditional cyanotype process.

Making a cyanotype quilt – from the garden

Jackie, a very experienced quilt maker, shows how she incorporates cyanotypes, or blueprints on fabric, made from plants, into your quilts.

Blueprint to cyanotypes – Exploring a historical alternative photographic process

Blueprint to cyanotypes – exploring a historical altenrnative photographic process, a book with practical instructions to the cyanotype.

Making cyanotypes in-camera

JE Piper has learnt how to make cyanotype negatives in-camera. Here is how.

Papers to use for the cyanotype print process

Papers to use for cyanotypes

Jim Read argues the case for using the cheaper papers for printing cyanotypes.

Debunking the myths of cyanotype

Jim Read straightens out a few myths on the cyanotype process.

Cyanotype exposure time – results of survey

Experienced cyantoype printers share their knowledge in this survey.

Cyanotypes painted with acrylics

Egill Ibsen shows us how cyanotypes can be painted with acrylics to get a spectacular result.

Amber Reumann Engfer cyanotype silver gelatin

Combining gelatin silver and cyanotype

After experimenting Amber Reumann Engfer has found a way to create a cyanotype on a fiber based gelatin silver paper (black and white paper).

In camera cyanotype taken with russian wood camera

In-camera cyanotype negative prints

Balazs Sprenc has managed to make cyanotypes – negative prints – by placing the paper directly into the camera.

Preparation & use for Siderotypes: Cyanotype, Vandyke Brown, Argyrotype, Ziatype, and the silver halide process of B&W silver gelatin v.1.5

The Special Edition Art Project was created to afford photographers and artists practical access to the creation of wet-processed photographic prints. This photographic processes user guide focusses instruction on classic B&W silver gelatin printmaking as well as the historic light-sensitive iron based Siderotypes processes of Cyanotype (iron), Vandyke Brownprint, aka VDB, (silver / gold), Argyrotype (silver / gold), and Ziatype (palladium / gold / tungsten / platinum). Writer and photography / … Read more

Siderotype Paper Survey: Cyanotype, Vandyke Brownprint, Ziatype v1.0

This detailed paper survey is the Special Edition Art Project effort to document how papers behave when paired with historic Siderotype processes used in our coastal California working environment. The Siderotype processes Cyanotype (iron), Vandyke Brownprint (silver) aka VDB, and Ziatype (palladium / gold / tungsten / platinum) are the focus of this survey, creating an assessment of a paper’s image density across exposure corrections, amount and type of grain, … Read more

Papers for traditional / classic cyanotype process

Christina Z. Anderson spends her hard earned money ($1613) on paper research for cyanotype papers and generously shares the results. Writer and photography / Christina Z. Anderson Over the last twenty years of practicing alternative processes, good papers for alt have come and gone on the market—Weston Diploma Parchment being one example. Worse, formerly excellent papers have gone the buffered route to increase their archival properties—not good for many of … Read more