Customer Reviews

Chine Colle: A Printer's Handbook

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A straightforward handbook which is also very informative. Shure communicates the subject matter and techniques with uncommon clarity. This book is used by the printers at Pace Prints among others.

I really had high hopes for this book, but was sadly dissappointed. All of the instructive photographs are taken from video stills and are very poor quality. None of the finished pieces are in color. There is no step-by-step for anything and the directions are vague, at best. As a printmaking student, I was hoping for a great new book to inspire me with ideas.... instead, I returned it.

I am writing from Crown Point Press to let all the printers out there know to check out our new Magical Secrets book on Chine Collé by Brian Shure. It is available now in 2009 and is $55 with full step-by-step instructions and an instructional DVD. We are disappointed at the price gouging that is going on for our out-of-print version published in 2000.

I didn't really know what chine colle was until I bought this book, and was a bit disappointed about how much emphasis was placed on making the glue. But now that I've done a bit of printmaking, I can understand why the whole process can be a bit tricky and this kind of thoughtful research is needed.

By the way, Crown Press has announced a second revised edition due end of April 2009. (That's sure going to put an end to the gouging that's going on the used book market...)

As an artist and printmaker, I found the technical and historical advice in this book illuminating. No printmaker should be without it!