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?
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