HEALTH AND SAFETY PRODUCTS
Please refer to the Annotated Bibliography for organizations, web sites, and books to assist in your selection of safety products.
Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA
Moislinger Allee 53-55
Lübeck, Germany 23558
International/Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 451 882-0
Fax: +49 (0) 451 882-2080
Website: www.draeger.com
Respirator masks and diver’s neoprene gloves. Offices worldwide.
General Scientific Safety
525 Spring Garden Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
Tel: 800-523-0166 or 215-739-7559
Fax: 215-922-5740
Grainger
100 Grainger Parkway
Lake Forest, IL 60045
Tel: 847-535-1000
Fax: 847-535-0878
Website: www.grainger.com
Large global supplier of safety products and more. Ships worldwide 160+ countries. Over 130,000 products including gloves and ventilation. Will ship worldwide. Can order by phone, e-mail, or online.
PHOTO-PRINTMAKING PRODUCTS
Adorama
42 West 18th Street
New York, NY 10011
Tel: 212-741-0063
Website: www.adorama.com
Contact printing frames, Fotospeed toners, Spot Pen hand coloring pen sets, Marshall Color sets, videos and books, and professional temperature controllers. My contacts in Guatemala use them for their good prices on digital.
Alternative Photographic Supplies
Szlachetna Fotografia S.C.
Wierzbowa 34
81-588 Gdynia
Pomorskie, Poland
Phone +48 793015354
www.alternativephotographicsupplies.com
Everything from large format to pinhole, equipment, matting and framing, alternative printing materials, paper, raw chemicals, books, pigments, inks for bromoil, alt process exploration kit (with cyanotype, Van Dyke, salt print, paper, brushes, bottles), workshops, and newsletter. They are practitioners, who test products before they sell them.
Antec, Inc.
721 Bergman Avenue
Louisville, KY 40203
Tel: 800-448-2954 or 502-636-5176
Fax: 502-635-2352
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.kyantec.com
Special list of chemicals for alternative processes, but other needed chemicals in their regular catalog in 25 g increments.
ArtChemicals of Copper Harbor Company, Inc.
2300 Davis Street San Leandro, CA 94577
Tel: 510-637-8708
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.artchemicals.com
Wide range of chemicals used for processes in this book and lab supplies and safety equipment, certified green company.
Arches ® Papers
Website: www.Arches-papers.com
These are the folks who brought out the magnificent Platine 100 percent cotton paper, perfect for almost any process in this book. They also supplied paper to Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Dali, Warhol, and others and have been making papers in Europe since 1492.
ArtCraft Chemicals, Inc.
P.O. Box 382
Altamont, NY 12009
Tel: 800-682-1730 or 518-986-4281
Fax: 518-355-9121
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.artcraftchemicals.com
Most alternative photo chemicals, including bleaching. Prepackaged kits, bulk chemicals, glyoxyl, and monthly specials.
Atlantic European Ltd.
Basement 16-28 Tabernacle Street
London EC2A 4DD
Tel: 0207-377-8855
Fax: 0207-374-6180
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.atlantisart.co.uk
Selection of Escoda brushes, paper, and pigments for other processes. Open seven days a week.
Badger Graphic Sales, Inc.
1225 Delanglade Street
Kaukauna, WI 54130
Tel: 920-766-9332
Fax: 920-766-3081
Website: www.badgergraphic.com
Huge selection of large format cameras as well as lenses, chemistry, films, developers, and photo chemistry supplies. International shipping.
Omega/Brandess
626 Hanover Pike, Suite 102
Hampstead, Maryland 21074
Tel: 410-374-3250
Fax: 410-374-3184
Website: www.omegabrandess.com
E-mail: [email protected]
Toners as well as films/cameras and darkroom supplies. In addition to toners, Berg makes gold protective solution, brushes, de-hardener, Berg Bath, From Black & White to Creative Color (book), and retouching kits. To stock Berg products, your photo dealer should contact Omega/Satter.
Blue Printables (see Fabric Suppliers)
In addition to the items mentioned under Fabric Suppliers, they also sell cyanotype precoated on 90 lb. watercolor paper and decently priced blueprint chemicals.
Bostick & Sullivan
P.O. Box 16639
Santa Fe, NM 87592
Tel: 505-474-0890
Toll free number: 877-817-4320
Fax: 505-474-2857
Website: www.bostick-sullivan.com for online catalog
They ship dry chemicals and pre-mixed solutions for all processes in this book, premixed kits for platinum and palladium, Pictorico OHP transparency, glass coating rods plus equipment, Mike Wares cyanotype process kit, books, and rag papers. Check out their ziatype process; kits for cyanotype, Van Dyke, gum, and kallitype; terrific and relatively inexpensive print frames and exposure units; HOBO 5 × 7 and 8 × 10 point-and-shoot cameras. They sell pre-measured bromoil chemicals that follow this book’s bromoil chapter author, Gene Laughter’s, formula. Call them (it’s a family affair) for technical advice and info regarding the yearly Alternative Photo International Symposium. There is a chat group. They are personable and knowledgeable.
B & H Photo• Video• Pro Audio
420 9th Avenue
NYC 10001
Tel: 800-856-5456
Website: https://www.bhphotovideo.com
Not only cameras, books, software, and used and new b/w darkroom equipment, but also scanners, printers, lectures/workshops, aluminum plates for tintype (Chapter 14), sizing, toners, amber bottles, and alt process chemicals. For instance, for cyanotype (Chapter 7) alone, they carry products from the Photographers’ Formulary, Fotospeed, Lomography, and Blue Sunprints pre-coated paper and fabric. Closed Friday afternoon to Sunday morning. Free shipping for most orders over $49 U.S.
Build.com
402 Otterson Drive,
Chico, CA 95928
Tel: 1-961-4963
Fax: 1-800-375-3403
Website: https://www.build.com
They have the light fixtures indispensable to building your own exposure unit and will ship overseas. In addition, they recommend https://www.1000bulbs.com/product/2220/F-20T12BL.html?gclid=CODx7pk2dlCFUINfgod8csHYA to connect to the exact bulbs needed for exposures. (See Chapter 4 for instructions.)
Bulb Direct Holding, LLC
7911 Rae Boulevard
Victor, NY 14564
Tel: 1-800-772-5267
Local: 585-385-3540
Fax: 585-385-4976
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: bulbdirect.com
Specialized lamp supplier. They have blacklight fluorescent tubes if you want to make an ultraviolet exposure unit.
Camera Lucida Company
Roger Vaughn
7 Bexley Court
Reading RG30 2DY
Great Britain
Tel: 0118-959-6704
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.cameralucida.org.uk
Carefully manufactured portable device, the camera lucida, based on the ones used by Fox Talbot and other founders of photography to enable them to draw. This is the method that David Hockney theorizes was used by Renaissance artists, Ingres, Warhol, and others. Can use outdoors, with studio setups and with photographs.
Canson-Talens, Inc.
21 Industrial Drive
South Hadley, MA 01075
Tel: 800-628-9283
Website: www.en.canson.com
U.S. distributor of L’Aquarelle. Want to know obscure facts about paper? They have a glossary for you going back to their founding in 1557 in Europe!
Caswell Inc.
7696 Route 31
Lyons NY 14489
Tel: 855-227-9355
Website: www.caswellplating.com
You can buy kits from electroplating supplies to buffing compounds.
Century Darkroom
245 Carlaw Ave
Toronto, ON M4M 2S1, Canada
Tel: 416-469-8128
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.centurydarkroom.com/
Supplier of silver clad copper plates in many sizes for daguerreotypes. Offers workshops and daguerreotype portraits as well.
Chicago Albumin Works
PO Box 805
174 Front Street
Housatonic, MA 01236
Fax: 413. 274-6934
Website: http://www.albumenworks.com/traditional_printing/
No longer in Chicago nor selling pre-coated albumen and other printing out papers, they do make digital negatives for contact printing from your files, and they know how to tailor to the process you plan on using. In addition, they offer printing services in many traditional techniques.
D. F. Goldsmith Chemical & Metal Corp.
909 Pitner Avenue
Evanston, IL 60202
Tel: 847-869-7800 (collect calls accepted)
Fax: 847-869-2531
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.dfgoldsmith.com
The least-expensive source I know of for silver nitrate; $50 minimum order required. I have ordered from them and attest to their reliability.
Edwards Engineered Products
9521 Pasatiempo Drive
Austin, TX 78717
Tel: 512-267-4274
Fax: (website says “no fax options” but to email with items you want, then call with your credit card number) 512-716-1914 and 866-546-1299
Website: www.eepjon.com
Email: [email protected]
Ultraviolet light sources with cooling fans, coating tubes, some vacuum frames, and even mechanical tray agitators. Loaner UV light units for teachers, and Matt’s handy dandy picture hanger(!).Trade-up option with some products.
Falkiner Fine Papers
Shepherds Inc.
30 Gillingham Street
Victoria London SW1V 1HU
Tel: 020-7233-9999
Website: store.bookbinding.co.uk
Wide range of bookbinding material and tools as well as many papers and books on bookbinding.
Firstcall Photographic Limited
Cherry Grove Rise
West Monkton, Taunton
Somerset TA2 8LW
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1823 413 007
Fax: +44 (0) 1823 413103
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.firstcall-photographic.co.uk
Fotospeed cyanotype, salt printing, and liquid emulsion; Rockland blue print, Liquid Light, and toners; Rollei Black magic; First Call printing out paper; b/w and color darkroom and digital equipment. Shipping within 24 hours of receiving order. Discount cameras, digital inkjet sheets for T-shirt transfers.
Fotospeed
Unit 6, Park Lane Industrial Estate
Park Lane, Corsham
Wilts SN13 9LG
England, U.K.
Tel: +44 (0) 01249 714555
Fax: +44 (0) 01249 71499
Website: www.fotospeed.com
Alternative process supplies including their own enlargement emulsion, black-and-white chemicals and papers, coating rods, contact printing frames. This company is dedicated to alt. processes and offers Van Dyke, cyanotypes, gum, palladium platinum kits, and photo linen.
Foma
Hemsveien 23
Hof 3090, Norway
Phone: 004799264846
Website: www.fomafoto.com
Fomaspeed Photo emulsion, b/w printing paper and chemicals.
Freestyle Camera Co.
5124 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Tel: 323-660-3460 (information)
800-292-6137 (orders only)
Website: www.freestylephoto.biz
They ship UPS postage free (in continental 48 states), a less-expensive lith film, such as Aristatone, under their own label, plus enlargement emulsions, darkroom supplies, photo-offset plates, nonsilver kits, pinhole cameras, pinhole photography kits, Arista mural paper, Kentmere/Harmon paper, and Foma Fomatone bromoil paper, Maco Genius supplies, and Marshall hand-coloring materials.
Glazer’s Camera
811 Republican St.
Seattle, WA 98109
Tel: 206-624-1100
Toll Free: 800-225-8442
Fax: 206-624-8065
Website: www.glazerscamera.com
Camera store that stocks darkroom supplies, chemicals, papers, films, etc.
Graphic Chemical and Ink Co.
728 North Yale Avenue
Villa Park, IL 60181
Tel: 630-832-6004
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.graphicchemical.com
Online catalog with wide range of papers, engraving, and etching supplies.
Hunter Penrose Ltd.
32, Southwark Street
London SE1 1TU
United Kingdom
Tel: 0171 407 5051
Fax: 0171 378 1800
Printmaking supplies.
Jerry’s NY Central
111 4th Ave
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212-473-7705 or 646-678-5474
Website: www.jerryspaletteshop.com
Wide assortment of paper including thin papers to print on, such as interleafing and air-mail stationery (captures detail).
Jerry’s Artarama
6104 Maddry Oaks Ct.
Raleigh, NC 27616
Tel: 800-827-8478
Website: www.jerrysartarama.com
Tons of art supplies, from printmaking, pigments for gum printing, brushes, and more.
Ilford Photo
Ilford Way, Mobberley
Knutsford, Cheshire, WA16 7JL, England
Tel: +44 (0) 1565 65 0000
Website: www.ilfordphoto.com
Manufacturer of sheets and rolls of black and white photo paper for toning and hand-coloring and Harman Direct Positive paper mentioned in the pinhole section of Chapter 5, Generating Imagery: Analogue Methods, and holographic(!) plates. Cannot find their Ilford Ortho Plus sheet film on their website, but I know they make it and that stores like B & H sell it. Website lists rental darkrooms and stores in the Western Hemisphere.
Imperial Plating Co.
7030 W. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60638
Tel: 773-586-3500
Fax: 773-229-0962
I have not used them, but they have been recommended for daguerreotype plate coating.
InkAID
Ontario Specialty Coatings
22564 Fisher Road
Watertown, NY 13601
Tel: 888-424-8167 (24 hours, orders only)
Fax: 315-782-7771 (prefer orders by fax)
Website: www.inkaid1.com
Iridescent metallic, white, and clear precoat and inks to prepare and print digital images on 3D surfaces, aluminum, wood, paper, acrylic, and almost any receptor you can feed through an inkjet printer. Makes my head spin with ideas. Also, lenticular devices to make still images appear animated! Also available at Charrette’s and Daniel Smith in the U.S.
Intaglio Printmakers
9 Playhouse Court
62, Southwark Bridge Rd.
London SE1 OAS U.K.
Tel: 020 7928 2633
Website: www.intaglioprintmaker.com
Litho inks, paper, etching presses, engraving, screen printing.
International Center for Photography
250 The Bowery
New York, NY 10012
Tel: 800-688-8171
Fax: 212-857-0000
Website: www.icp.org
They sell “Hole-On Ex Make & Shoot Pinhole Camera Kit” for constructing a cardboard camera and “Flights of Fancy,” a kit for making a wooden pinhole camera, and they host exhibitions.
The Italian Art Store
9 Tulip Street
Summit, NJ 07901
Tel: 800-643-6440
Fax: 973-644-5074
Website: www.italianartstore.com
Jumbo sash brushes for bromoil.
Harman Technology Limited
Ilford Way, Mobberley, Knutsford
Cheshire, WA16 7JL, England
Tel: +44 (0) 1565 65 0000
Toll Free Tel: 1-888-372-2338
Fax: +44 (0) 1565 872734
Website: www.kentmere.co.uk
They bought Kentmere and are the company behind Ilford Photo, listed above. Distributor of fine art black-and-white paper, Kentmere Fineprint Variable Contrast, while stocks last. Look up dealers in the United States, U.K., Canada, South America, China, Japan, etc.
Lazertran LLC.
3580 NW 56th Street, Suite 100
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
Phone: 800-245-7547
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.lazertran.com
Dorothy Imagire, who authored sections on transfers and lifts, says: “They are a wonderful company with several different products, including Lazertran Inkjet, Lazertran Silk, Lazertran Etch, Lazertran Inkjet textile Transfer paper for white cloth and Lazertran Inkjet textile Transfer paper for dark cloth, and psychedelic Inkjet colors.”
T.N. Lawrence & Son Ltd.
208 Portland Road
Hove BN 35QT
U.K.
Tel: 01273-260260
Fax: 01273-260270
Website: www.lawrence.co.uk
Suppliers for artists/printmakers: lith inks, rollers, brushes, Lazertran for transfers, watercolors, and array of papers. Sale items on-line only. Other store in Cornwall.
David W. Lewis
457 King Street
P.O. Box 254
Callender, Ontario POH 1HO
Canada
Tel: 705-752-3029
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.bromoil.com
More than ample choices of oil bromoil brushes, color pigments, chemicals, bromoil papers, and transfer presses, as well as The Art of Bromoil and Transfer (see Annotated Bibliography).
TheMagicTouch
(International Sales and Supplies)
Benzstrasse 17
64807 Dieburg
Germany
Tel: +49 6071 921 800
Fax: +49 6071 921 821
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.themagictouch.com
You can purchase transfer sheets that use color and black-and-white copying technology to relocate imagery on paper, fabric, ceramics, wood, metal, and glass. They also sell heat-press equipment, mugs, and (of course—they are in Germany) steins. Distributers and workshops in many countries.
Hans O. Mahn Gmbh & Co. Kg
Brookstieg 4
D-22145 Stapelfeld/Hamburg, Germany
Website: www.mahn.net
Rollei (Black Magic), Fotospeed (dyes, toners, and kits), Bergger paper, Maco and Agfa and Kodak supplies.
McManus and Morgan
2506 West 7th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90057
Tel: 213-387-4433
Website: www.mcmanusandmorgan.com
An art store that specializes in papers—thousands to choose from.
Metal Finishing Technologies
60 Wooster Court
Bristol, CT 06010
Tel: 860-582-9517
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.mftech.com
I have not used them, but they coat plates for daguerreotypes.
William Paul & Associates, Ltd.
27 Holland Avenue
White Plains, NY 10603
Tel: 800-962-4050/914-761-0010
Fax: 914-761-0508
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.wmpaulstore.com
They used to carry an array of ortho film, but they do not show any on their website now. Iron-on and other transfer papers seem to be in stock.
Peerless Color Laboratory
2934 County Road MN
Stoughton, WI 53589
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.peerlesscolor.com
Manufacturer of Nicholson’s Peerless Transparent Water Colors in sheet (fabulous for traveling) and liquid form for over 115 years. They produce a Complete Edition Book with 15 color sheets or the Trial Edition Book with the same 15 colors in smaller sheets. Individual sheets and liquids are available in over 200 different colors. They cover the first $2.50 of shipping in the U.S.
Philben Litho Supply Company Inc
600 Hartle Street, Unit C
Sayreville, NJ 08872
Tel: 800-274-4523
732-851-5741
Fax: 732-851-5744
Website: www.philben.com
Gum Arabic recommended by gum printer extraordinaire Judy Seigel. They also sell lith/ortho film, UV units and bulbs, rubilith masking film, registration pins useful in casein and gum printing, and b/w darkroom supplies. Must fax or send order form.
The Photographers’ Formulary, Inc.
P.O. Box 950
7079 Hwy 83 N
Condon, MT 59826
Tel: 800-922-5255
Fax: 406-754-2896
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.photoformulary.com
They supply small or large quantities of numerous chemicals plus instructions explaining principles and theories for alternate photo processes, as well as black-and-white and color photography. Also, some books and apparatus (beakers, thermometers, etc.). Monthly specials, gum arabic. The most reliable source and gentle employees I know of for all the light-sensitive technique chemicals; they also run summer workshops (www.workshopsinmt.com) for black-and-white and many of the processes in this book (including my “Cyanotypes & Artists’ Books” during the summer) in an area of Montana “boasting some of the best wilderness lands in the Rocky Mountains.” Only ship within the United States.
Mitsubishi Imaging (MPM), Inc.
555 Theodore Fremd Avenue
Rye, NY 10580
Tel: 800-765-9384
Fax: 914-921-2495
Website: www.diamond-jet.com/pictoricotop.aspx
They make the incomparable Pictorico (derived from the Spanish word for “picturesque”) OHP inkjet transparency film for digital negatives.
New55Film
New55 Holdings, LLC
72 Nickerson Road
Ashland, MA 01721
Tel: (508) 296-0610
Email: [email protected] (Sam Hiser, CEO)
Website: http://www.new55.net/company/
European distributor in Vienna: https://the.supersense.com
They make large format positive/negative black and white film with superb detail and tonal range.
Pinhole Resource
224 Royal John Mine Road
San Lorenzo, NM 88041 USA
Tel: 575-536-9942
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.pinholeresource.com
Pinhole Resource sells books, catalogs, pinhole cameras (many of which are handmade), zone plate shutters, books, including legendary Eric Renner’s own big pinhole book), kit for turning a room into a camera obscura(!). Three times per year, from 1985–2006, they published Pinhole Journal (a fascinating publication devoted to pinhole photography around the world), and back issues are available. Make sure you see the catalog from “Poetics of Light,” the exhibit Eric and Nancy Spencer curated, and stay tuned for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. A pinhole-related website, http://pinholeday.org/events/index.php, will tell you more and lists workshops.
John Purcell Paper
15, Rumsey Rd.
London SW9 0TR U.K.
Tel: 020 7737 5199
Fax: 020 7737 6765
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.johnpurcell.net
Fine collection of artists’ papers.
Quality Plating Co.
420 S. 500 West
Salt Lake City, UT 84101-2208
Tel: 801-355-7424
Fax: 801-355-7820
Website: www.qualityplating.com
They have been “plating with pride since 1955,” for Daguerreotype plates.
Recognition Systems
30 Harbor Park Drive
Port Washington, NY 11050
Tel: 516-625-5000
Fax: 516-625-1507
Website: www.dotworks.com
These are the nicest folks, who still do business with personal attention. They sell opaque black bags that I have recommended for storing coated light-sensitive paper and mixed chemicals, contact papers and films, unruled and orange masking sheets. Their main office is in England.
Rockland Colloid LLC
PO Box 3120
Oregon City, OR 97045
Sales: 503-655-4152
Technical Support: 914-413-3000
Fax: 866-737-0174
Website: www.rockaloid.com
Makes Liquid Light© and AG+©; platinotype and blueprint kits; black and white fabric and paper sensitizer; toners; colorants; inkjet transparency film and transfer sheets; tintype kits; wet transfer paper; toner for firing photo images on ceramics; Select-a-Color photo-resists for permanent color prints on sheet metal, ceramics, illustration board, and wood (I have used it on paper). As far as I know, they were the first to make enlargement emulsions, and it’s comforting to know that such a reliable company just keeps going.
Rollei
Website: http://rolleifilm.com
Black Magic Emulsion, Rollei Ortho Film and lith (high contrast) developer, and where to buy them.
Salis International, Inc.
301 Commercial Road, Suite H
Golden, CO 80401
Website: www.docmartins.com
Distributor of Dr. Ph. Martin’s Synchromatic Transparent (brilliant, permanent) Watercolors for hand coloring and Liquid Frisket that I use for masking areas before toning (it even comes in two strengths). They have been “coloring outside the lines” since 1934.
Silverprint
Unit 26, Albany Business Park
Cabot Lane, Poole
BH17 7BX
United Kingdom
Tel: 01202 051 180
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.silverprint.co.uk
Materials and equipment for platinum/palladium, salted paper, gum bichromate, etc. Will supply chemistry in small quantities. Some high-quality black-and-white papers, bromoil materials, toners, Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag paper, student discounts, and some free shipping. Reasonably priced silver nitrate for brown printing, pre-coated colored (!) cyanotype paper and fabric, color C41 film processing kit that you might use as described in the Hybrid Color Photography chapter and in its subsection, Chromoskedasic painting. Specialty films, like Maco Genius and pinhole supplies. Also ship with reliability world-wide (I used them to send chemicals to Cuba, where I was teaching a workshop, and they arrived on time to the correct address).
Daniel Smith Art Materials
4150 Frist Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98134
Tel: 203-223-9599
Fax: 1-206-224-0404
Second store in Bellevue, Washington
Website: http://www.danielsmith.com
Huge array of watercolor pigments. The Smith brand is well-respected and comparatively reasonably prices, and many gum/casein printers swear by them. Tips and tutorials on their webpages. Flat shipping rate.
Szlachetna Fotografia S.C.
Wierzbowa 34, 81-001
Gdynia, Poland
Tel: 48-793015354
Email: [email protected]
Carries impressive number of supplies, such as rag paper, coating tools, chemicals and kits for most processes in my book (pinhole, gum, cyano, salt, bromoil and more), bottles, books.
Team Plastics Inc.
3901 W 150th St
Cleveland, OH 44111
Tel: 800-931-8326
Fax: 216-251-7341
Email: www.teamplasticscom.homestead.com
Ask for their laser acetate overhead transparent .004 polyester film (i.e., copier film) to make transparencies on your laser printer after you check with the manufacturer.
Testfabrics, Inc.
PO Box 3026
West Pittston, PA, 18643
Tel: 570-603-0432
Fax: 570-603-0433
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.testfabrics.com
You can find pH papers, mentioned in Chapter 9, Salt Prints, thermometers, gram scales. For platinum and palladium, Chapter 12, they not only carry droppers, but the more exact pipette syphons and syringes. More about them in the Fabric Supplier section, below.
Theta Plate, Inc.
3330 Princeton NE
Albuquerque NM 87107
Tel: 505-880-1856
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.thetaplate.com
You can send plates there to be coated with different metals, and silver is needed for daguerreotype and Becquerel (Chapter 15).
Universal Light Source
1553 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94101
Tel: 415-864-2880
Website: www.ulsi.net
Decent prices on Super Actinic 420 nm bulbs, which some photographers recommend for much faster and slightly more contrasty (cleaner high values) exposures with platinum/palladium.
The Vermont Country Store
P.O. Box 3000
Manchester Center, VT 05255
Tel: 802-362-8440
Website: www.vermontcountrystore.com
They sell modern-day oilcloth, “still easy to wipe clean and won’t crack,” typewriters, and other hard-to-find specialty items.
View Camera Store
P.O. Box 19450
Fountain Hills AZ 85269-9450
Tel: 480-767-7105
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.viewcamerastore.com
They sell the BTZS large format film processing tubes which are great for saving chemistry and large format camera accessories and lenses, as well as miscellaneous darkroom supplies, Ilford papers, and Ilford films.
Wet Plate Supplies
Unit 15-16 Highlode Industrial Estate
Ramsey, PE26 2RB U.K.
Tel: +44 0 1487 813447
Website: http://www.wetplatesupplies.com/
Very large selection of alternative process supplies from Bromoil to Wet Plate Collodion to Cyanotype. Fotospeed enlargement emulsion, tintype plates, raw chemicals, and much more. They also have a modest camera selection and alternative process accessories. Ship to EU countries, even though U.K. has pulled out.
Williams-Sonoma
Website: www.williams-sonoma.com
Located in many large-city shopping malls in the United States, they carry basting and pastry brushes good for bromoil and other processes.
FABRIC SUPPLIERS
Blueprints on Fabric
20504 81st Ave SW
Vashon Island, WA 98070
Tel: 800-631-3369
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.blueprintables.com
Fabric artist Linda Stemer and partner Susan McKeever market and ship worldwide pre-coated pieces of cyanotype cotton and silk, treated fabric by the yard, and adult and youth T-shirts pretreated with cyanotype solution. They will preshrink and pre-coat paper. Also sell bulk cyanotype chemicals. You can purchase Barbara Hewitt’s Blueprints on Fabric (see Annotated Bibliography) at a discount price, nature print transparencies (beetles, rhinos, lizards, dinos, etc.), and untreated fabric from their company. Wholesale prices for stores, groups, and schools.
Pro Chemical and Dye Co., Inc.
126 Shove Street
Fall River, MA 02724
Tel: 800-2-BUY-DYE (228-9393)
Fax: 508-676-3980
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.prochemicalanddye.net
They ship paints, Pebeo fabric pens, and natural fabric dyes and thickener to prevent dyes from bleeding, which allows for more control when hand coloring. They carry Setacolor Transparent Dyes for sun printing, respirators, tough gloves, scales, and cotton and silk by the yard. Looks like their inexpensive fabric frames might work for coating chemicals onto stretched cloth. You can find pH papers, mentioned in Chapter 9, Salt Prints, thermometer, gram scales. For platinum and palladium, Chapter 12, they not only carry droppers, but the more exact pipette syphons and syringes.
Testfabrics, Inc.
PO Box 3026
West Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18643
Tel: 570-603-0432
Fax: 570-603-0433
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.testfabrics.com
Wholesale prices on desized, scoured, and prepared for dyeing fabrics and fabric swatch booklets to individuals. Unsized 100 percent cotton, silk, and linen by the yard, tablecloths, T-shirts, scarves, dust bunnies(?!), accessories related to costumes, translucent thread. On occasion they sell cotton seconds on an “as is” basis. You can find pH papers, mentioned in Chapter 9, Salt Prints, thermometer, gram scales. For platinum and palladium, Chapter 12, they not only carry droppers, but the more exact pipette syphons and syringes. Shipping worldwide.