Cyanotype Kit, DIY sun printing, botanical solar printing
This Cyanotype kit is a perfect gift to have fun this summer. It's where art meets science!!! The kit comes complete with everything you need.....just add sun.
This Cyanotype craft kit includes
• Two bottles of chemicals to create the solution. Bottle A is created with ferric ammonium citrate and distilled water and Bottle B is potassium ferricyanide and diluted in distilled water.
• 6 pages of Fabriano Academia drawing paper 160grm.
• A brush
• 3 Papercutting templates to get you started.
• Instructions
• Gloves
• Top Tips & Safety Information
It doesn't include:
- frame
- Pressed flowers
This DIY cyanotype kit contains chemicals to mix up 100ml solution which will coat around 40-50 A5 sheets of paper - a little goes a long way. There are 7 sheets of A5 paper included, but you will find your chemicals will stretch much further than this! You can coat any acid-free paper or fabric with your cyanotype solution, get creative!
What is cyanotype?
Discovered by Sir John Herschel in 1841, a cyanotype is a camera-less photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. I was made famous by scientist Anna Atkins in her book titled ‘Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions’ in 1843.
