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Figure SI. Househead Puppet, classic cyanotype on cotton, 3′ × 1′ × 5″ © Melanie Walker 2018. “I frequently print on fabric, either cotton or silk. I have been working with these materials since graduate school in the 1970s and used to coat my own fabrics which was a huge mess. Lately I have been purchasing pre-sensitized fabrics from Blueprints on Fabric. I have never been disappointed with their materials. I started working with cyanotype and other heliographic processes when I was very young and learned them from my father, Todd Walker, who was one of the pioneers of historical photographic processes in the 1960s. My father was pretty much ...

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