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  1. Duchess
    There's a bunch of different things you can do! A not exhaustive list of things to use: Piece of wood lumber (pros: small pieces are often cast offs and easy to find, con: grain can be a pain work with, just do all your carving with the grain, absorbs ink) Linoelum block (pros durable, can be carved in any direction, consistent. cons: can be expensive, might want a way to hold it while carving, set size unless you want to saw) unmounted linoelum (pros, easy to cut to size, straightforward carving. cons: not rigid, easy to accidentally cut through, still kinda expensive) rubber blocks for printing, ie Speedy carve (pros: pink is super easy to carve, easy to cut to size cons: kinda expensive, might be hard to source, not long term durable) pink eraser blocks (pros:cheap, easy to find, easy to carve. Cons: small size, hard to hold while carving) potatoes (Pros: easy to care, easy to find, cheap. cons: kinda wet and starchy. rots) 3D printing (Pros: I dunno? Fun to combine lots of skills, no hand strength needed Cons: expensive, time consuming, high learning curve) Other things that aren't exactly carving or block printing that you could do: Mono printing, basically painting with the ink and then making one print of that Found objects, finding material with interesting texture/relief and printing with those this is really easy to do with leaves
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    The mix actually keeps pretty well! We usually make a batch on Friday night/saturday morning and eat waffles for breakfast for 3-4 days. You might be able to make it up ahead of time and store it in a jug in a cooler. These look so good! I'm glad you tried the recipe!
  3. Duchess
    I've worn it to work a few times. The results have been...interesting...😁
  4. Duchess
    Oh no! I stumbled across a folder of Pennsylvania Dutch designs at an antique store last summer, so you might try hitting up antique stores with art books.
  5. Duchess
    A thread to collect ideas for the Traveling Yard - A Pyracy Print Exchange project. For right now: If you're interested in participating, chime in here. If you have ideas, share those too!
  6. Duchess
    Equipollence and equipollent are used in physics quite a bit.
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    For a first go round I'd suggest just your original thought, a square of material that each person could print on. I could likely source some cotton blanks to use, similar to the one here. I would recommend that we keep the number small, say 5-10 participants for the first go round. Send all the squares together along with some fabric ink. Just given the nature of printing it is easier to print all at a time. And we'd want to make sure that the finished product is not going to wash away without forcing everyone to buy ink. I can work on putting this together as event later this summer if you like. Curate some tutorials for different ways to make a block and work up some directions on size etc. What do you think Stynky?
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    Krusteaz Belgian mix used to be the good stuff! BUT they changed their recipe late last year and the new stuff smells just like playdoh to me and I can't get over it. I was so bummed. So we started experimenting and came up with the yeasted recipe I posted above.
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    Tell me more! I could see doing a couple of different options: A traveling yard of canvas that each participant would add a print to using fabric inks. A submission of carved blocks for one person to print. We could maybe do a mini virtual workshop sort of thing using speedy carve or rubber erasers to create blocks. A mini print exchange A block printed canvas patch exchange (where my old school punks at?) I have ideas!
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    Misunderstanding the assignment, I didn't turn my work in to the correct location. I'll copy it here in hopes for some partial credit. Hello! I’m Duchess. I’m your Arts of Pyracy Moderator. I spent my childhood summers working with my mom at one of the largest renaissance festivals in the country. I worked there again as an adult for almost a decade. I’ve been involved in a variety of historic, theater and arts related endeavors for much of my life, but stepped away from performing about 15 years ago. I still have most of my gear, living in totes in my small house. It might be angling for a come back or a side step, I don't know yet. I am a physicist by training, an inveterate and intemperate learner of skills by nature, nurture and inclination. I’m thrilled to see the Pub return, having originally joined just a few months after it was opened in 2003. Those of you who have been around might recall that I used to moderate sea shanties and more importantly, organized the annual holiday gift exchange. While I’m moving to moderate Arts (thanks to William’s generosity) I don’t plan to hand off the holiday exchange duties any time soon. Get honing your gift making and package assembly skills and keep an eye out for that this fall!
  12. Duchess
    Ah. I am. Or more accurately, I could be. I'm not sure I'm any good at working to a brief though.
  13. Duchess
    I'm not sure what I have left, but I'll take a look for you!
  14. Duchess
    Once again I curse my academic schedule.
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    Wow! I've been working on developing a waffle recipe for my family, after of our favorite mix changed. What we've settled on is strikingly similar to this one! 2 cups all purpose flour 1.5 cups of warm milk 3 tbls brown sugar (I suspect maple syrup or honey would be equally good) 3/4 tsp salt 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract 1.5 tsp yeast Let rise 1 hour on counter or overnight in refrigerator after an hour on the counter. Here's this mornings breakfast.
  16. Duchess
    Basically. I call it a plate since I've only been doing them about 3mm thick. Start with a sketch Photograph it, since I don't have a scanner Bring it into photo software, clean it up into a two color image. Convert it to a 3D model (okay there's really like a dozen steps here, but you get the idea.) Print the 3D plate Use a printing press to print the image Paint. This step might involve various stages and resists depending on what I'm going. In this case, the basic image is just the line work of the ship. Everything else is added at the end.
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    I've been working on a complicated process of designing and 3D printing relief plates. Then using the plates those to create the basis of 1/1 editions with a common printed element. The common element here is ,very loosely, a 16th century caravel.
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    Hello! I’m Duchess. I’m your Arts of Pyracy Moderator. I spent my childhood summers working with my mom at one of the largest renaissance festivals in the country. I worked there again as an adult for almost a decade. I’ve been involved in a variety of historic, theater and arts related endeavors for much of my life, but stepped away from performing about 15 years ago. I still have most of my gear, living in totes in my small house. It might be angling for a come back or a side step, I don't know yet. I am a physicist by training, an inveterate and intemperate learner of skills by nature, nurture and inclination. I’m thrilled to see the Pub return, having originally joined just a few months after it was opened in 2003. Those of you who have been around might recall that I used to moderate sea shanties and more importantly, organized the annual holiday gift exchange. While I’m moving to moderate Arts (thanks to William’s generosity) I don’t plan to hand off the holiday exchange duties any time soon. Get honing your gift making and package assembly skills and keep an eye out for that this fall! In this space, keep your arts and crafts coming! Share what you’re working on or learning. Be kind. Be constructive. Remember that we were once all novices in our favorite thing and we are presently all novices in something else.
  19. Duchess

    Tea!

    Duchess replied to LadyBarbossa's topic in Galley

    My aged self immediately rebelled at the idea of having to learn how to use discord. But I'll take a look.
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    Tea!

    Duchess replied to LadyBarbossa's topic in Galley

    What about getting a bunch a hosting a virtual tea tasting? We could have a sign up (small fee to cover the tea?), then send a package and brewing instructions for each signed up person. And do a zoom event for the tasting!
  21. Duchess
    Excellent! My husband and I are avid mountain bikers (he also rides a variety of BMX) we actually stopped riding as much during the pandemic. Our local trails were absolutely flooded with new people who were in way over their heads. It got to the point that we were having to act as first responders nearly every time we went out and when you have to be the responsible adult for everyone else around you, it sort of takes the fun out your adventure escape. We switched to night riding almost exclusively for the first two years. I'm hopeful we'll be able to get back out more in the daylight this summer. A few months ago at an antique store, we found a book on the trails in our region that was published in 1994 (revised 1998). Our summer plan is to revisit trails comparing the the guide to do today. Huzzah to 25 years of change!
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    Please share some pics of what you make! I've played around with 3D some replacement parts for vintage pens, sections and the like but haven't made a whole pen. I'm working on a replica filling mechanism for vacumatics. It started out as piece for a workshop, so people could practice replacing a diaphragm on something delicate but replaceable. But now I'm thinking I can actually use the thing I designed as a replacement part!
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    I am a proud owner of a personalized version of this. 😍
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    Thank you! It's so satisfying. Particularly the ones that are nearing or over a 100 years old. My husband and I are still running a monthly table top group with a board game focus. It's been running for more than a decade now, which is hard to believe. I did have some angst about it. Giving up/changing identities is always a journey. I don't really drink anymore. My parents wanted the equipment out of their house and the place we bought is far too small to house something I likely would never use again. I passed it off to a former student of mine who is very excited to begin her home brewing journey, which made the transition easier. For the grains, maybe 5-6 cups? I use about a cup per batch of bread. It freezes well.
  25. Duchess
    To be fair I was equally interested in cheese when I lived in Washington. Thank you for this! Bad is not the same as hard. I suspect they were working with quite hard varieties to begin with.
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