tracing-paper

Her technique was to paint scenes from her life, attach tracing-paper overlays with words and melodies, create a playbill introducing the characters, add a narrator, summon an invented audience, and announce “This play is set in the period from 1913 to 1940 in Germany, later in Nice.”

Charlotte Salomon. 2009

The Art of Harvey Kurtzman, however, makes even Little Annie Fanny artistically fascinating, with a brilliant set of tracing-paper pages showing the development of a spread from a first pencil layout to the finished product.

The Matisse of Mad Magazine 2009

Captain Servadac was evidently in no hurry to betake himself to rest, but seating himself at his table, with a pair of compasses and a sheet of tracing-paper, he began to draw, with red and blue crayons, a variety of colored lines, which could hardly be supposed to have much connection with a topographical survey.

Off on a Comet 2003

Selecting some tracing-paper from among the things left by his father, the boy made a tracing from the plan he had been studying.

Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines Kirk Monroe

When ink is to be used on parchment, or glossy tracing-paper, it will flow perfectly if a few drops of ox-gall be mixed with it; but on soft paper, or on bristol board, this will cause the ink to spread.

Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose

It is better, however, to mark the design through tracing-paper with a knitting-needle.

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886 Various

One-fourth of the handkerchief being drawn on tracing-paper, all the design can be marked from it, on red, blue, or green; but it is preferable to draw a little more than a quarter only, instead of the whole handkerchief, which is cumbersome to hold.

The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. Unknown

To do this fix some tracing-paper over the design and carefully take the outline; a good margin of plain paper should be left round the outside in order to prevent any of the pounce getting accidentally rubbed on to the embroidery.

Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Grace Christie

It has about 2/3 the strength of animal parchment when dry; the thinner kinds make capital tracing-paper, which takes ink readily.

Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

Dempsey hesitated an instant, scratched his head, and very carefully drew a line on the tracing-paper in front of him.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various