1-DAY COURSE

[ 1-DAY COURSE: Making a postcard size print with your own image ]

On the first day, you will be taken on a special tour of Benrido’s Collotype Atelier where you can experience the skilled work and process of collotype carried out by the artisans in person. The tour will take you through our photography studio, plate-making room and print-making studio, which are not open to the public.

Next our Master Printer will guide you through exposing and developing your own plate that has been pre-coated with the collotype photo-sensitizer. Using your plate, you will then carry out a series of test prints on Japanese deckle-edged rice paper. At the end, you will be able to take home your finished print.

Time 10:00 – 17:00 *Please refer to the calendar on the right for dates

Participation Fee 15,000 JPY (including instruction texts, ink and material costs, 10 postcard sized deckle-edged Japanese rice papers and sales tax)

Capacity 4 people

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*Note:
– Benrido Collotype Academy will be using a new process of plate making developed from the traditional glass plate. Participants will learn to use this new process which uses a monochrome negative (collotype tissue) as the plate for printing. This collotype tissue provides the base where the negative can be coated with the gelatin solution, infused with the DAS photo-sensitizer that is nontoxic to the human body and the environment.
– You will need to submit your image data to us at least one week before the course starts, in order for us to prepare the plate for you.
– Please come wearing clothes you can get dirty in.
– Please bring your own apron, towel for hand-wiping and packed lunch.