Baren Recovering Service- now listed w/McClain's Printmaking Supplies

Bamboo skins get worn out from use and brittle from age- especially if they’re not being used. Give you barens a look-see and if they deserve a fresh recovering with new skins, please consider Tanuki’s baren recovering service– $15 per baren, $15 for shipping (includes insurance) and return shipping is free for any additional barens.

Alex Prentiss from McClain’s Printmaking Supplies lists me in their catalog: “John Amoss of Tanuki Press recovers baren for a very reasonable price”. She also wrote me saying that I’m the only service offered outside of Japan which saves printmakers both time and money. For rush and international orders, there will be additional charges. Write John: jamoss23@gmail.com for a quote.

OK, so give me the baren recovering links already! 🙂
• For 1 baren recovering
• And any additional barens are $15 per recover @ no additional return shipping. Add as many as you want!

Hand-made barens by Tanuki:
• And, as always, if you’re looking to upgrade your student or sosaku barens, take a look at Tanuki’s Asanawa Barens in both MEDIUM and HEAVY strengths.

A Woodblock Glossary

• Bake (hanga or maru): traditional Japanese printing brushes made of horse or hog hair. Hanga bake have long handles, maru (round) bake resemble shoe brushes.

• Baren: The traditional printmaking "pad" that is used by manually pressing the inked block. and paper.

• Baren-suji: Impression marks made with a baren- intentional or not.

• Beta ban: A flat, consistent color block.

• Bokashi: A graduated color impression often seen in traditional ukiyo-e print backgrounds.

• Chūban: a print size about 7 by 10 inches (18 by 25 cm).

• Keyblock: Roughly, line blocks often containing color.

• Hanshita: The drawings used as a guide to later carving.

• Ita-bokashi: "block shading" a technique for producing gradation achieved by sanding or abrading the edges of the carving.

• Moku hanga: Japanese for woodblock prints.

• Nishiki-e: Multi-coloured woodblock printing.

• Nori: Paste to keep pigment in suspension made of rice, potato or tapioca.

• Ōban: a print size about 15½ by 10½ inches (39 by 26.5 cm).

• Sakura: Japanese cherry often used for woodblocks.

• Shin-hanga: "new prints"- refers 20th century woodblock printmaking revival often featuring layered color landscapes.

• Shina: Japanese basswood or lindenwood often used as easily-carved woodblocks.

• Sosaku-hanga: "self-prints"- prints that are designed, carved, and printed by the artist. A movement that became popular during post WWII Japan.

• Tokibo: or hakobi a small brush used to apply pigment to the block.

• Ukiyo-e: Literally, "floating pictures" referring to 17th>mid/late 19th century prints depicting secular subjects.

• Washi: traditional Japanese paper made from the bast fibers of the mulberry plant.

• Zokin: A small wooden block covered with cloth primarily used to print bokashis.

[+] For a more extensive list from M.I.T., go here

[+] For more information about the techniques of moku hanga, see www.woodblock.com and barenforum.org

Baren Recovering Service- now listed w/McClain’s Printmaking Supplies

Baren Recovering Service- now listed w/McClain’s Printmaking Supplies

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