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posted 5/15/2012 1:33:00 PM by Ruth
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I need to float mount a large piece using rice starch paste, which calls for distilled water. What is the danger, if any, of using tap water? |
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posted 6/13/2012 4:24:00 PM by David
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Not really sure, but as far as I''m concerned anything that Hugh Phibbs says about framing can be trusted. Very few people can you say that about.
Just being pragmatic, I''d rather use filtered drinking water anyway. After I use the few tablespoons of water I need I can finish the rest off. It''s inexpensive, always at hand and I don''t need to make a special trip to the grocery store to buy a gallon of it. |
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posted 6/12/2012 9:40:00 PM by Louise Bradley
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The idea of using bottled drinking water instead of distilled water is good. (I will stick with distilled water). But regarding the second comment, I am curious to know how the small amount of water in the paste on a hinge could leach anything out of an artwork. The hinge should just be damp not wet and it is dried very quickly too. I would imagine that something could leach out of paper during a wet cleaning but during hinging? I''m not being critical, but am just curious about that idea. |
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posted 6/7/2012 12:22:00 PM by David
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Tap water contains chlorine, fluoride, iron and possibly other contaminants.
In a class I took with Hugh Phibbs he advised that distilled water is actually too pure and could leach materials out of the paper. He recommended filtered bottled drinking water. |
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posted 6/3/2012 6:25:00 PM by Louise Bradley
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I always use distilled, (or de-ionised,) water because it does not contain the impurities that are (or may be) found in tap water. |
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Why distilled water for making rice starch paste?
