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Busy day at the office ...
Posted by Dave Bull on December 5, 2011 [Permalink]
It's sometimes not clear whether to put any particular post into the Woodblock RoundTable, or here into the Mokuhankan Conversations - the work being done falls into both areas ... as is the case today!
Here's a very unusual scene at the entranceway - four of us here today!
It's not that we've added a new person, it's that Yasui-san - the lady who has been doing print mounting, etc. (she made the folders and packed all the Senshafuda prints) - usually works at home, but was here with us today because the job at hand was something she had never done before and needed to work through it together with me.
It would be kind of a long story if I told it all, but I can simply mention that her job for the next couple of weeks is going to be doing a 'catch up' with some mounting and packing work that has been long 'postponed'. As you can see in this next picture, she is making folders for prints from my Surimono Albums!
These prints have been waiting in drawers patiently for about eight years, and are finally getting put into folders and into albums ...
She spent the morning doing that, while behind her the two printer ladies kept very busy. Tsushima-san (on the left) is beavering away at this year's studio New Year print. There are 150 sheets in the batch, and she'll run two batches. We think there will be seven impressions, so this will be the largest job she has yet tackled by a long shot.
Over on the right in that shot, at my own printing station, Ishigami-san is doing a batch of the Plum Blossom patterned snack wrappers. That project is kind of on the edge of exploding; the head of the local Chamber of Commerce heard about it, and is really excited about getting it up and running in all the snack makers in town. He has dreams of it becoming a 'major' attraction for the town ... We'll see ...
With all this going on, there was really no chance for me to get any serious work done, so I found a corner of the table at the back of the room (as you can see in this frame grab from the Woodblock Webcam), and trimmed paper for my next batch of prints (the second batch of the Ito Jakuchu design). I'll be printing those tonight ...
And once the ladies had all gone, it was time for me to make a 'Monday' trip to the post office. Monday trips of course include all the prints ordered over the weekend, and today's pile - Gift Prints mostly - filled my backpack right to the brim!
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