Talk:À la poupée

A fact from À la poupée appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 September 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that it sometimes took Mary Cassatt and a printer eight hours to make eight or ten coloured prints using à la poupée inking (example pictured)?

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The result was: promoted by Amkgp (talk) 05:48, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Mary Cassatt, The Fitting, 1890,

... that sometimes it took Mary Cassatt and a printer 8 hours hard work to make 8 or 10 coloured prints (example pictured) using à la poupée inking? Source: Cassatt wrote: "...Sometimes we worked all day (eight hours) both as hard as we could work and only printed eight or ten proofs in the day". Quoted in Ives, Colta Feller, The Great Wave: The Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints, pp 45-46, 1974, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ISBN 0-87099-098-5

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5x expanded by Johnbod (talk). Self-nominated at 19:02, 8 August 2020 (UTC).[reply]

New enough. Long enough, (5x expansion). Well researched with reliable citations throughout. AGF on the sources. Well written, neutral and interesting. Hook is cited. QPQ done. GTG. Hybernator (talk) 20:15, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lead is confusing

The first two sentences were very confusing to me until I read the Technique section. In particular, I assumed that "one for each colour" meant "one plate for each color", not "one wad of cloth for each color", as color printmaking often involves multiple plates (and of course you wouldn't use the same cloth for different ink colors). Then when I read the second sentence, I imagined some kind of complicated assembly-line process where the paper gets pressed by multiple plates in a single run. Once I read the Technique section, I realized that my understanding from the lead was completely wrong. Kaldari (talk) 19:28, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Frankly I think it is your preconceptions that are causing the trouble - probably most readers won't have these. I've adjusted to "technique for making colour prints by applying different ink colours to a single printing plate using ball-shaped wads of cloth, one for each colour." which makes this misunderstanding more difficult. 21:48, 2 September 2020 (UTC)