Comments on: Racking Up A Fair Clip http://blog.olansa.co.uk/2008/04/05/racking-up-a-fair-cliop/ Printmaking, SF&F Sun, 7 Sep 2008 17:18:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Sue http://blog.olansa.co.uk/2008/04/05/racking-up-a-fair-cliop/#comment-640 Sue Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:35:34 +0000 http://blog.olansa.co.uk/?p=62#comment-640 That's brill! You're a real lateral thinker! I need to get something sorted out along those lines now I'm up and running. I was thinking along the same lines as Patti, above, with the retractable clothesline and a few pegs. I like the bead idea to keep the pegs/sheets separate though. I shall have to put my thinking cap on. That’s brill! You’re a real lateral thinker! I need to get something sorted out along those lines now I’m up and running. I was thinking along the same lines as Patti, above, with the retractable clothesline and a few pegs. I like the bead idea to keep the pegs/sheets separate though. I shall have to put my thinking cap on.

]]> By: Patti Phare-Camp http://blog.olansa.co.uk/2008/04/05/racking-up-a-fair-cliop/#comment-636 Patti Phare-Camp Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:25:16 +0000 http://blog.olansa.co.uk/?p=62#comment-636 David that's very clever but what a lot of work! But I can see that you can clip a very large edition of prints and the beads space them very nicely. 15 years ago I went to the department store and bought a retractable clothes line. It works a lot like vacuum sweeper where you give a little tug and the cord whips back into the case. I mounted it to one post on my walled in on 2 sides porch/deck/studio and usually I connect the other end to a hook on the wall of the house. But if I need more line I can wind it around the hook and bring it back to the another porch post with a hook on it. I have wrapped a few times around the porch before I ran out of line, though I have never needed that much line I was just testing to see how far I could go. I clip the prints up with plain ol' wooden clothes pins. This is also more useful because I can use more than one clothes pin to clip up very large prints for drying. When the edition is dried and in a stack I simply retract the cord and claim the deck/porch studio space back. I need to claim the space back because my husband is rather tall and a cord across the deck that I can reach could easily snare him at the throat, no problem when the drying prints act like warning flags but if there is nothing hanging on the cord it's not visible in the dark... David that’s very clever but what a lot of work! But I can see that you can clip a very large edition of prints and the beads space them very nicely.

15 years ago I went to the department store and bought a retractable clothes line. It works a lot like vacuum sweeper where you give a little tug and the cord whips back into the case. I mounted it to one post on my walled in on 2 sides porch/deck/studio and usually I connect the other end to a hook on the wall of the house. But if I need more line I can wind it around the hook and bring it back to the another porch post with a hook on it. I have wrapped a few times around the porch before I ran out of line, though I have never needed that much line I was just testing to see how far I could go. I clip the prints up with plain ol’ wooden clothes pins. This is also more useful because I can use more than one clothes pin to clip up very large prints for drying.

When the edition is dried and in a stack I simply retract the cord and claim the deck/porch studio space back. I need to claim the space back because my husband is rather tall and a cord across the deck that I can reach could easily snare him at the throat, no problem when the drying prints act like warning flags but if there is nothing hanging on the cord it’s not visible in the dark…

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