Japanese Woodblock With Laura Episode 17 - Damping Printing Paper for Japanese Woodblock Printing

Damping the printing paper properly takes a bit of know how- here I demonstrate with Washi, Western paper and my favourite wallpapering brush.
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[@nikond90ful1]

Thanks for the video Laura. I have the sound in stereo as it is also raining in my part of the UK as I watch this. Keep safe and stay well.

[@fitzmauriceworks]

Very informative. The heavy rain adds something too!

[@simonedoherty6195]

Thanks Laura, very informative highlighting the different needs of different papers. Looking forward to the next one. The rain sounds wonderful!

[@liart6219]

The Fabriano Academia you use are the 200 gram Drawing paper, isn’t it? Not the watercolour or sketching paper?

[@LauraBoswellPrintmaker]

I don’t know if there are various versions of this paper, but I just know it as Fabriano Academia 200g and it works well - If they describe it as for drawing I imagine it is still the same stuff.