cyanotype
Americannoun
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a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, that produces a blue line on a white background.
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a print made by this process.
noun
Etymology
Origin of cyanotype
Example Sentences
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The photographic technologies utilized begin with daguerreotypes and include stereoscopic prints, a cyanotype, gelatin silver prints, large-format chromogenic works and images created with digital manipulation, neatly demonstrating the show’s long time span.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
For Sunprints, a new wallpaper from Calico, the company’s founders, Rachel and Nick Cope, caught the images of fresh-cut flowers through the cameraless photography technique called cyanotype.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
She used a combination of letter press and cyanotype techniques to depict a child "lost in a forest of letters".
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2023
“River Light” was first a photograph, and then a cyanotype, but it looks very different in its mosaic incarnation.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
It should then be put in the printing frame in the same way as the cyanotype paper and exposed to the sun.
From Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 by Elverson, James
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