# Collagraphy

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Printmaking process

This article is about the printmaking process. For the photographic process, see [Collotype](/source/Collotype). For decorative writing, see [Calligraphy](/source/Calligraphy).

Collagraphs demonstrating both relief and intaglio-inking.

**Collagraphy** (sometimes spelled **collography**) is a [printmaking](/source/Printmaking) process in which materials are glued or sealed to a rigid substrate (such as [paperboard](/source/Paperboard) or [wood](/source/Wood)) to create a plate.[1] Once inked, the plate becomes a tool for imprinting the design onto paper or another medium. The resulting print is termed a **collagraph**.

Examples of collagraph plates using a variety of materials

The term "collagraph" was coined by [Glen Alps](/source/Glen_Alps) in the 1950s, and is derived from the [Greek](/source/Greek_language) word *koll* or *kolla*, meaning [glue](/source/Adhesive), and *graph*, meaning the activity of [drawing](/source/Drawing).[2]

Artists use a variety of materials in collagraphy, including yarn, fabric, tape, different varieties of cut paper or card, leaves, feathers, and acrylic mediums.[3][2] The application of ink onto the collagraph plate is versatile, consisting of [intaglio](/source/Intaglio_(printmaking))-inking into recesses, [brayer](/source/Brayer) or paintbrush inking onto [relief](/source/Relief_printing) surfaces, or a combination of these methods. A print can be made with, or without use of a [press](/source/Printing_press).[4]

## See also

- [Carborundum printmaking](/source/Carborundum_printmaking)

- [Beatrice Winn Berlin](/source/Beatrice_Winn_Berlin)

## References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Collagraphy](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Collography).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Zeng, Natasha (2015-12-17). ["Experiments in Truth: Collagraph Printmaking, Environmental Stewardship, School Psychology, Social Change, and Virtues & Vices"](http://magazine.wheaton.edu/stories/2016-winter-experiments-in-truth-collagraph-printmaking-environmental-stewardship-school-psychology-social-change-and-virtues-vices). *Wheaton Magazine*. Retrieved 2023-12-05.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-MacKenzie-2019_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-MacKenzie-2019_2-1) MacKenzie, Susie (2019). *Making Collagraph Prints*. Crowood Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781785005824](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781785005824). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [1112656269](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1112656269).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Collagraph Printmaking \[Lesson Plan\]"](https://cdn.dick-blick.com/lessonplans/collagraph-printmaking/collagraph-printmaking-collagraph-printmaking.pdf) (PDF). *Dick Blick*. 2008.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Oldfield, Vicky (2023). *Mixed-Media Collagraph Prints: Creative Techniques*. Crowood Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780719841071](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780719841071). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [1391439355](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1391439355).

## Further reading

- Brenda Hartill; Richard Clarke (2005). *Collagraphs and Mixed-Media Printmaking*.

- Robert Adam; Carol Robertson (2008). *Intaglio: Acrylic-Resist Etching, Collagraphy, Engraving, Drypoint, Mezzotint*.

- Mary Ann Wenniger (1981). *Collagraph Printmaking*.

- Clare Romano; John Ross (1980). *The Complete Collagraph: The Art and Technique of Printmaking from Collage Plates*.

- Donald Stoltenberg (1975). *Collagraph Printmaking*.

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