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Designs used blown glass techniques with little cutting and engraving but no painting or gilding.
There will be demonstrations of glassmaking techniques, including engraving and painting on glass.
William Blake's engravings at the end of his career are the apotheosis of engraving as a creative linear technique.
This includes seal engraving, die-sinking, line engraving, carving and also grain setting of precious stones in jewellery.
There he studied painting with him and learned the Western technique of engraving.
Techniques of engraving, casting, and die-stamping usually associated with silver are also employed in jewelry making.
Such qualities stood to challenge the kind of collective participation and sectional approach traditional engraving often required.
The woodcut is the senior member of the family of relief prints, differing fundamentally from intaglio methods such as etching or line engraving.
It is similar to the technique of engraving, where a line is cut straight into the metal plate by the engraver.
This combination of chemical and mechanical together with the artistic, is universal in line engraving.
This process involves etching, engraving, dry point, aquatint, mezzotint, linocut and wood block.
Alan could make out ornate engraving across the surface and for the first time noticed the small feet that protruded from under the rim.
In the course of his research, Professor Turner has developed the skill to recognise styles of engraving in the manner of a handwriting expert.
Walking around the back of the island an engraving on the wall of a building intrigued me.
The monk reached down, took it out, and peered at the intricate engraving of Chinese characters.
He was soon engraving large plates of landscape views and scientific specimens for federal government reports of exploring expeditions.
Both sides of the sterling silver functional end have a brushed finish, and the front is embellished with bright-cut engraving.
It's easy enough to draw a curved line with a pen or on an engraving plate with a graver.
And when, at last, they came to me, they did so with a compliments slip that featured an engraving from Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop.
Only the cornerstone of the building had been laid when the engraving was made.
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Another notable invention of the time was the process of engraving on soft steel.
So he turned to Antoine, who had remained seated in front of a block he was engraving.
The engraving plainly shows how calipers for this purpose are made, and how used.
The chamfer circles are left out of these figures to reduce the number of lines and so keep the engraving clear.
At the present time the process is commonly conducted in a reverberatory furnace, similar to that figured in the engraving.
Some lines of his on the lyre became the motto of an engraving by Bartolozzi.
It is like the picture, but it has also the individuality of the draughtsman, as in line engraving.
I have stopped the mouths of all the painters who used to say that I was good at engraving but, as to painting.
He found a bas-relief engraving of a hand pointing to a corner of the door.
Dry-point, a method of engraving generally regarded as part of etching, but more closely allied to line engraving.
At the present day line engraving is seldom or never used as a means of illustrating scientific work.
Further, a line engraving takes a long time to make, and most publishers would certainly look at the expense.
In the past, however, the line engraving was much used, and very beautiful work was often accomplished.
The annexed engraving represents a simple apparatus for preserving fruit in its natural state, by means of a partial vacuum.
The arcosolium to which this is attached contains the remarkable paintings represented in the accompanying engraving.
I have never been able to find a description or engraving of it in any work on microscopy.
The compass card, made from a line engraving, is identical in each of the three examples.
Plain engraving, niello, russet work, golden inlay and beaten ornament are common methods of enrichment.
One machine, called the pantograph or engraving machine, reproduces engravings in all metals and many shapes from patterns.
The oriflamme was a red banner attached to a staff, and cut in the manner shown in our engraving.
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