{"id":1220,"date":"2014-11-03T07:59:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T13:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2014-11-03T08:30:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T14:30:36","slug":"tortillas-la-iguana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/2014\/11\/03\/tortillas-la-iguana\/","title":{"rendered":"Tortillas La Iguana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimescalante.photoshelter.com\/gallery-image\/Blog-Photos\/G0000FTwz.38z3x0\/I0000owtPWa_9QGU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000owtPWa_9QGU\/s\/440\/440\/Tortillas-La-Iguana-1.jpg\" title=\"Photo By: Jim Escalante\" alt=\" (Jim Escalante)\" width=\"440\"><\/a><br \/>\nWhat started out as an experiment in making paper from corn husks, has turned into a small print for the <a href=\"http:\/\/woodtype.org\/events\/item\/122\" title=\"HWT Wayzgoose 2014\" target=\"_blank\">HWT Wayzgoose 2014<\/a> on Sunday, November 8th. Instead of forming regular sheets of paper from the corn husk pulp, we poured the pulp into a variety of round shapes. When the paper dried it resembled tortillas so much that I  had to create a new brand, Tortillas La Iguana! Thanks to Tracy Honn from the <a href=\"http:\/\/silverbucklepress.library.wisc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Silver Buckle Press<\/a> for suggesting how I should print the plate on different sizes of paper. The classroom&#8217;s Vandercook 219 has a set of rollers for inking that lift up enough to not touch the paper as the platen cylinder rolls over during the printing run. Our friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxcarpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Boxcar Press<\/a> made the plates for this run. Below is short video on the printing steps. At the press is Julie Marie Copenhagen.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AQ6tT341MEo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What started out as an experiment in making paper from corn husks, has turned into a small print for the HWT Wayzgoose 2014 on Sunday, November 8th. Instead of forming regular sheets of paper from the corn husk pulp, we poured the pulp into a variety of round shapes. When the paper dried it resembled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,29,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookarts","category-iguana","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimescalante.net\/teach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}