All you have to do is remove the paper from the packet when ready to expose and place the objects on to top in theory if you have semi-translucent images then the detail will come through and create a cyanotype image. Like those of Anna Atkins shown below:
The images above not only paved the way for photographs to be used in books alongside scientific text.
The sun print paper should allow me to create photos in a very similar style.
Whilst not strictly photography the idea is exactly the same, in the way that using sun light and a light sensitive paper to create an image. Which is all photography is.
Anna Atkins:
"Trained as a botanist, Anna Atkins developed an interest in photography as a means of recording botanical specimens for a scientific reference book, British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions. This publication was one of the first uses of light-sensitive materials to illustrate a book. Instead of traditional letterpress printing, the book's handwritten text and illustrations were created by the cyanotype method. Atkins printed and published Part I of British Algae in 1843 and in doing so established photography as an accurate medium for scientific illustration." - Quoted from - http://www.getty.edu/
If her work has grabbed you there are 3 books on Amazon at around about £230 which sounds a lot but there are only 3 on there so if you want one dont wait to long:
Sun Gardens: Victorian Photograms by Anna Atkins
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