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  • My mother, an artist who’s been making prints since the 1960s, often verbs chine collé in speech—e.g., “and then we chine colléd the rice paper to the Arches paper”—but I’ve never seen it used that way in print.

    January 9, 2010

  • What does it mean?

    January 9, 2010

  • Method of adhering thin pieces of colored paper to the larger printing paper at the same time that the inked image is printed.
    The Complete Printmaker: Techniques, Traditions, Innovations by John Ross, Clare Romano, Tim Ross (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990)

    January 9, 2010

  • Oh. I thought it was French for 'china collie': a little ornament you put on your mantlepiece.

    January 9, 2010

  • Wow! I'm trying to imagine what this looks like.

    January 9, 2010