On Jul 28, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Ed Sutton wrote: > When we add juices to hammers, are we trying to bind or cement the > wool fibers together, or are we trying to size and stiffen the > individual fibers? I tend to think we are sizing and stiffening the > fibers, using very thin solutions which partially penetrate and coat > the fibers. Is this better done by something stiff or flexible, or > does it matter? Well put. That is along the lines of the questions I have been asking. I think like you that we are trying to stiffen individual fibers, and whether stiff or flexible is better is an open question, one that probably doesn't have a definitive answer. While I have heard people talk about using collodion, usually thinned with ether, I am not at all clear whether they meant stiff or flexible. I think it likely they meant stiff, in which case it is simply the same thing (essentially) as lacquer with acetone (to speed drying, like ether would do). Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu http://www.createculture.org/profile/FredSturm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100728/68dc76b6/attachment.htm>
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