Japanese Woodblock With Laura Episode 19 - Making Nori Rice Paste for Japanese Woodblock
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- How to make your own rice paste, nori, for Japanese woodblock printing.
My book 'Making Japanese Woodblock Prints' (Crowood Press) is available from booksellers if you'd like a back up guide to this film series. If you'd like to leave a small donation to help our film making, I have a fundraising page at GoFundMe gf.me/u/zd8bcq
We ran out of rice flour (making sourdough bread, not printing art) and due to Covid-19 the local supermarkets didn't have any. Then we found you can easily make your own rice flour. All you need is some rice and a coffee grinder. It doesn't work with a blender - the blades don't go fast enough -but a minute in the coffee grinder and there is a fine rice flour.
Hi Laura, thank you for the gift of these videos. I have been learning moku hanga through a combination of an independent study class at a local college here in Northern California, watching your videos, reading books about moku hanga, and a great deal of trial and error. Your videos have become increasingly helpful the more I have tried an errored. I am just about ready to print an edition of my first image. It won't be any great work of art but it will be a legitimate moku hanga print. I can't thank you enough for your generosity in making these videos available.
I wish you were my professor for every single class i had in college. i have ADHD. sometimes it's so hard to pay attention to others when they talk. you have my attention from the v beginning and i didn't lose it at all.
@SJ-dl6uc Don’t worry about it, you’re unique so use your talents and skills to do what you enjoy.
I work in multi media and have never focused on one thing at a time, I only realised it’s because I have ADHD a few years ago. I’m 65 years old:)
Learning in life isn’t dependent on one professor.
:)
This is the first thing in the woodblock series that has worked how I thought it might! I have no doubt there are many more surprises to come, but it's nice to see a bit of starch paste familiarity from thickening sauces for the purpose of eating.
Thank you so much Laura, I have learned much more from your vidio
Laura Boswell, you are simply THE BEST!!! i have always wondered what was that ''white thing'' used on ukioe printings and i finally know what is, years of searching and here is, thank you so much, i have learned much more watching your videos than on 4 years of university :')
Glad to help!
Have been using the shop bought nori for years. Will be giving this a go for my next woodblock! Thank you Laura and Ben!!
Thanks again Laura and Ben, I have made similar glue with wheat flour for Korean Hanji work and wondered whether the nori was made in the same way. You've just showed me it is although a slight difference with the Korean Hanji glue (which I'm sure must have originally be made with rice rather than wheat). The Hanji glue is refined over a number of days by mixing the starch and water first, letting it sit for a day and then carefully pouring off the water each day and replacing with fresh water over a week or so. At the end of this time the heating process takes place in the same way you described in making the nori. The refining process makes a very silky glue for use in Hanji work but that is quite different from mokuhanga. Best way I can describe Hanji work, a traditional Korean craft, is a very sophisticated paper mache. Thanks again, really enjoying the videos. Stay safe, cheers Simone
We make wheat starch glue, for mounting sometimes so thank you for sharing on here, really interesting!
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I could not get rice flour too, just like Mark Gibbons here. Then I decided to take the rice paper sheets, which consists of 99,5 per cent rice flour and a little bit of salt. I cooked them and used the blender. Hopefully the salt does not create white blotches in the print, but then again I am only in the experimental stage.
Hi Laura. Thank you for all your tips and tricks😊 I have tried to follow your recipy for making rice glue. However, it became a bit grainy. How long do you let it boil? Also I'm after a safe glue that will make tissue papers transparent/see through when glued down. I'm not talking about the glue drying transparent, but that the actual thin tissue paper will be transparent when glued down. I'm using wet strength tissue paper, and I thought rice glue would make it transparent. But this is not the case. Am I doing something wrong in making the glue perhaps? Kind regards Nina 🥀
Thank you so much ... does it mould on the paper?
Hi Laura, I love what’s you just made with rice pate! My question I have right now is I’m making a bowl with paper mache and was wondering can I use this pate too with newspaper strips? Thank you.❤❤❤
Yes you can - it’ll be perfect
Hi Laura, I came here after suggestion you gave me through Instagram few days ago. Showed process is interesting, in the past I made some try with common rice. It took lot of time to "dissolve" but at the end I got a similar result. With flour, the process is very very most quick. I still wonder what ti do to make the paste last for more than few days. I added with no results one time alcool, then lemon juice, just few drops, wondering they act as preservative, but none of both worked. Have you experimented something else that works? Thank you
Just make fresh as you need it - or buy the commercial stuff if you really need to keep it for a long time
It's not possible, it doesn't work, it spreads on the fabric, it doesn't stay fluffy like nori.
Can potato starch be used instead of rice starch? I remember my granny using watered-down potato starch paste (called "krochmal" in Polish) to get her crochet doilies and bedsheets crisp. It was made the same way as you're showing here so it got me thinking if these could be substituted?
Maybe run some tests against rice starch and see how it compares? Let me know how you get on 🙂
So I have rice flour and rice starch. I assume the starch is more refined. Can either be used?
Hi Teri yes I have used both OK - avoid glutinous rice though as that doesn’t work well
Hi Laura, I’ve been using shop bought nori and wondered why it wasn’t printing well and was very gluey! I’m really struggling to get the consistency right mixing it with water. Is there a ratio needed? Or what consistency am I looking for? Thank you! X
You probably need to dilute it more than you think - when you add water it looks like you’ve diluted it enough, but as you stir it thickens. You’re looking for the nori to be soft and drop slowly off your stick (like cake batter if that helps 🙂)
Laura Boswell thank you so much! I’ll give it another try or maybe try and make some of my own! ♥️
You mentioned Tea Tree Oil in.a previous video. Could a few drops added to the nori help it to stay viable longer.?
When making starch paste (rice, wheat or corn) for paste paper or for bookbinding, some people add a drop or two of clove oil as that is supposed to help stop mould and bacterial growth, as well as deterring starch-eating pests. Home-made nori's change of texture after a few days may not just be due to mould or bacteria, though.
It would probably stop any mould, but I don’t think it would keep the home made nori fresh and stop it going slack and runny.
Why doesn't the use of nori, down the road, lead to mold?
Because the print dries - all historical Japanese woodblock prints are made this way and there are a vast number of very old prints in excellent condition. It is the damp that’s a problem. Same as books stuck together with wheat paste or animal glue - fine until they get damp or exposed to insect damage, fire etc.
@@LauraBoswellPrintmaker Thank you for the quick response and clear explanation!
🙂 you’re welcome!