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cyanotype
[ sahy-an-uh-tahyp ]
noun
- a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, that produces a blue line on a white background.
- a print made by this process.
cyanotype
/ 蝉补瑟藞忙苍蓹藢迟补瑟辫 /
noun
- another name for blueprint
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of cyanotype1
Example Sentences
For Sunprints, a new wallpaper from Calico, the company鈥檚 founders, Rachel and Nick Cope, caught the images of fresh-cut flowers through the cameraless photography technique called cyanotype.
She used a combination of letter press and cyanotype techniques to depict a child "lost in a forest of letters".
鈥淩iver Light鈥 was first a photograph, and then a cyanotype, but it looks very different in its mosaic incarnation.
Among the highlights are Marty Ittner鈥檚 cyanotype of a blue catfish, reversed atop a maritime chart; Julie Wolfe鈥檚 trio of jellyfish, screenprinted in contrasting aqua and magenta; and Eveline Kolijn鈥檚 etching and linocut of several lionfish in a sea that seems to flow from a single gush of water.
Then, he hand-coats a paper with a cyanotype solution that adds slickness to the piece.
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