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Salt Prints

 This page contains thumbnail images of some of the Salt Prints I have made. I began with salt/gelatin, soaking the paper in a solution of common salt and gelatin, drying it and the sensitising it with a coating of silver nitrate. The silver nitrate is applied using a glass rod. I then tried salt/arrowroot in which the initial soaking is in a solution of arrowroot and common salt (the arrowroot I borrowed from the kitchen cupboard). I have also tried salt/albumen, using a solution of common salt in egg white. The result is a slightly glossy finish.
  I have used a variety of papers and all have been reasonably successful.

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Salt - Arrowroot Prints Salt-Gelatin Prints
maypole1 maypole2 maypole3 maypole4 Gabriel Cottage85x65.jpg (7015 bytes) Pebble85x77.jpg (7908 bytes)

Barwick in Elmet Maypole being raised by the traditional method using ladders, ropes and pitchforks.

 From 2005, due to "health and safety" reasons a mobile crane has been used.

 1 Gabriel 2 Ingleborough Cottage 3 Pebble
A solution of Arrowroot is used for sizing the paper, rather than gelatin.
Printed on Fabriano Artistico paper		 Printed on a non-descript paper from Cropper's paper mill near Kendal in the English Lake District
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