The Court from Above
Pigment on Hahnemühle German Etching, 310 g. Matt, natural white, with a soft felt texture. Uncut, with a margin of bare paper around the motif.
Both sizes carry the same motif at the same proportion.
Sent from Germany.
Details
The clay court, seen the way the Groundsman sees it at 5:53 — from above, before anyone has walked on it. Two players, one net, roses along the hedge. Bordered like a rug.
Fine art pigment print on Hahnemühle German Etching, 310 g, matt. Uncut sheet; the motif sits inside a white margin.
A3 · 29,7 × 42 cm
A2 · 42 × 59,4 cm
Paper and care
Pigment on Hahnemühle German Etching, 310 g. Matt, natural white, with a soft felt texture.
Shipping and returns
Sent from Germany.
Returns and exchanges: see the returns policy.
What arrives
The print, unframed and uncut, with its margin. That is it.
Volume I · The Paper
German Etching, felt-textured.
The sheet is Hahnemühle German Etching, 310 grams to the square metre. The surface has a soft, felt-like texture, the kind etchings are printed on. Matt, natural white. Move across it.
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The paperHahnemühle German Etching, from the mill in Dassel. Acid-free, made to hang for a long time.
NaturalNo optical brighteners. The white you see is the white it stays.
MattCold press, textured. Light sinks into it instead of bouncing off.
Glossy paper is brighter under shop lights. It also shows every fingerprint and every reflection of the room. We took the other trade.
The Print
Pigment, not dye.
How a sheet is made, in three steps and no hurry.
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I
The file
Each print begins as one file, drawn for this sheet and no other. Nothing is cropped to fit a standard. -
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The press
Pigment inks, laid down by a fine art printer. Pigment sits on the paper rather than soaking through it, which is why it holds its colour where dye lets go. -
III
The sheet
Uncut, without crop marks. The motif sits inside a margin of bare paper. Trim it, mat it, or leave it; the margin is yours.
We could put these through a poster press. They would arrive faster. They would not be the same object.
The Sheet
Two sizes. One margin.
Both sheets carry the motif at the same proportion, with bare paper around it. Choose the wall, then the sheet.
- A3297 × 420 mm — the sheet in the photographs
- A2420 × 594 mm — the larger of the two
- MarginUncut, no crop marks. Trim it, mat it, or leave it. It is yours.
A3 is the sheet for a hallway or a desk. A2 wants a wall of its own.
Keeping it
Behind glass, out of the sun.
- GlassAny frame with glass. Museum glass if you like the print more than the window.
- The matThe margin is cut for a mat. Let the mat sit on the paper, not on the motif.
- SunPigment is patient, but direct sun wins eventually. Hang it where the light is kind.