[LargeFormat] flattening of dry prints
Les Newcomer
largeformat@f32.net
Thu Jan 9 12:08:02 2003
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 08:49 AM, hairy possum wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> IF I try to dry mount them without rewetting and
> drying flat, will the emulsion crack?? Would it be
> better to just wet them again, and dry in the dryer
> flat instead??
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Lauvone
>
>
>
I found some nice panoramas from the San Franscisco earth quake that had
curled beyond the point of opening them. A conservator friend said I had
to re-humidify them. I found a box with a tight lid laid some wet
blotter paper on the bottom, put a rack above that and laid the prints on
the rack. In about a day they were nice and supple and I placed them
between blotter paper and a weight and they dried nice and flat.
I don't think your prints are as dried out as mine from 90 years ago, so
you may be able to accomplish the same thing by laying them out in the
bath room and having every body in your family take a hot shower without
the fan on.
Or maybe a semi-wet sponge on the back of the print?
Les