WE have a great recycling store near by, called Extras for Creative Reuse. It is a membership type place and when you visit you can take pound and pounds and bags of stuff! I find lots of interesting “printmaking tools”.
This tile sample works great to make marks in the thin layer of ink on the gelatin and glycerin printing plate. Then when the ink builds up on the “tool”, I print the ink back on to a clean area of the plate and get a very detailed impression with mere hand pressure.
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