Bloo Prints is a local market vendor based in Omaha Nebraska. Blood Prints specializes in the photographic cyanotype process, using light sensitive chemicals to produce striking and detailed silhouettes of various flowers and foliage. This process can be applied to many different surface including paper, fabric, glass, and wood.
Offering cyanotype prints, bags, shirts, and frames.
Bloo Prints are unique and long lasting pieces, proven to brighten up any home or outfit!
HOW ARE BLOO PRINTS MADE?
What is the photographic cyanotype process?
Originally invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842, cyanotype photography is a camera-less technique that creates stunning white and Prussian blue images. When ferric ammonium citrate or ferric ammonium oxalate is mixed with potassium ferricyanide, it becomes sensitive to UV light.
These chemicals can be painted onto paper or fabric and left to dry in a dark room. Once dry, objects can be arranged onto the paper and placed in the sun.
The UV rays from the sun react with the chemicals on the paper to create the recognisable cyan-blue background. Where the paper has been covered with an object it will remain white.
Once the chemicals are rinsed off with water, fixing the print so it is no longer sensitive to the sun, you are left with a beautiful print.