conquistadors - paper - a slight return
May. 23rd, 2001 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saint_monkeyinvestegations into the availability of my chosen paper Strathmore Writing shows that it hasn't been made in the configuration i need (machine molded laid sheets of at least 10" x 20") in about 30 years. (Art stores really should go through their sample paper books more carefully!)
10 sheets is, well... abolutely unobtainable.
I'm going with a cheaper, lesser quality (but still very fine quality) machine laid molded paper called Lana Laid. (Sounds like a 50's pr0n flic title, doesn't it?) No supply problems with that alternative, Daniel Smith Artist's Supply had plenty at (get this, $0.87 a sheet!) I may buy this stuff regularly to "proof" (test print) on instead of the positively volitile candian newsprint i use now. (Often the proofs are as nice or even nicer than the final prints, but since newsprint decays in sunlight, it can't be presented as a gift or sold.)
10 sheets is, well... abolutely unobtainable.
I'm going with a cheaper, lesser quality (but still very fine quality) machine laid molded paper called Lana Laid. (Sounds like a 50's pr0n flic title, doesn't it?) No supply problems with that alternative, Daniel Smith Artist's Supply had plenty at (get this, $0.87 a sheet!) I may buy this stuff regularly to "proof" (test print) on instead of the positively volitile candian newsprint i use now. (Often the proofs are as nice or even nicer than the final prints, but since newsprint decays in sunlight, it can't be presented as a gift or sold.)
