Hi, Sharon Lucky you! I'm sure there will be others who know more about looking after and using fragile antique prickings, but I imagine pricking through a very fragile old card pricking would risk damaging it even more, I reckon it would be safer to use the old (pre-photocopier) method and take a rubbing of the pricking ( a bit like brass rubbing). Take the pricking you want to copy and place it upside down on a flat surface, fix a sheet of thin paper or tracing paper over the top and rub the flat side of a fat crayon (I'm not sure what brass-rubbers use, but those fat wax crayons toddlers use will do, or artist's pastel crayons if you have access to those) over the surface. The holes in the pricking will appear as dots on the paper.This is now a mirror image of the original pricking. If the paper is sufficiently transparent you can turn this paper over and prick directly onto card to get your copy pricking; if not, prick onto thick paper or thin card, turn this over and prick through the holes to get your right-way-round copy pricking. Good luck with interpreting/truing up the patterns. Don't forget to let us know how you get on with them. Beth In a very grey Cheshire, England (but at least it isn't actually raining this morning).
Sharon wrote: > I've just been given four antique prickings of four different types of > lace..lucky, lucky me :) What I would like to do is make copies of them in > black and white so I can study them.(...) One is on vellum, the others are on very fragile card. Do I have to prick through every hole onto carbon or > what? - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
