Rookery Thorn, blocks cut 1878 · 21″ repeat · drawn here from the same 9 passes the price below is calculated from
9 blocks · 9 passes · 9 drying days
Nine blocks, nine passes, and a price you can add up yourself.
One block is cut by hand for every colour. Every block is a separate pass over the bench, and every pass has to dry before the next one goes down. That is the whole of why this costs what it costs.
Pulled apart
Each tile is the build so far, not the block on its own. Pass six only means anything on top of one through five — and there is a drying day between each of them.
01Ground wash
The flat field the rest sits on
02Bramble
Main stems, the structure of the repeat
03Verdigris
Leaf bodies
04Deep verdigris
Leaf shadow, offset a hair from pass three
05Madder
The hips
06Madder deep
Hip shading
07Bone
Thorn highlights
08Bark
Outline, laid last but one
09Gloss size
Sealing pass, no pigment
What a roll costs
No enquire-for-pricing. The bench charge is the same on every roll and the passes are counted off the pattern, so the sum is one a customer can check.
| Bench charge, every roll | $52 |
|---|---|
| 9 passes at $34 | $306 |
| One roll, 20.5″ × 11′ | $358 |
Everything on the bench
Rookery Thorn
9 passes · 9 drying days
$358
Hollow Stripe
2 passes · 2 drying days
$120
Pomona Border
5 passes · 5 drying days
$222
Minimum 3 rolls. Below three rolls the bench setup costs more than the paper. If you need less than that — a patch on a stair, a single panel — say so and we will tell you what it would really cost rather than sending you away.
1,420 blocks, oldest cut 1846
A block is pear wood, cut in reverse, and it lasts about forty thousand impressions before the fine work goes soft. We re-cut from a surviving fragment when a pattern comes back missing a colour — which is most restoration work.
Lead time is 7 weeks on a nine-pass paper. From approved strike-off to the roll leaving the bench, on a nine-pass paper. A two-pass paper is about three weeks. The drying rack is the constraint, not the queue.