Today we were utilising some fabulous paper samples to print the streets of Santander.
In another part of the city three of us set off along the Santander coast to Secunda playa de El Sardinero armed with some samples of the Moriki Japanese paper and our favourite tampos. (We all made a set of tampos at the college using cotton or sheep’s wool, silk and string.)
It was a real treat to use this soft malleable creamy Japanese paper. It is strong yet moulded itself around the objects when dampened. 
We tested the paper on the rock surfaces on the beach with swirling strata.
Samphire was growing amongst the rocks . This too offered potential for printing.
We found the Santander drain cover with the image that is repeated across Santander. There are slight differences in the design in different districts.
This one had been partly covered with road tartmac. A small tourist train passed every 5 minutes and thoughtfully avoided the prints. Also people in cars from time to time. Though it was mainly a pedestrian pathway.
The ship and castle are perfect symbols for Sandander.
We printed on. As Judy was printing a man on a bike stopped and took great interest. We gave him the Blog address. As we left he was still taking photos of the drain cover. Perhaps this encounter had given him a new impression of his own city and something he had cycled passed each day.
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