TRACINGS MADE WITHOUT INK BY NEW PROCESS.
A radical change in drafting methods may be brought about by a new tracing fabric that has just appeared on the market. This fabric is somewhat similar to ordinary tracing cloth, and is coated on one side with a thin skin of hard, brown material which renders it opaque, but which is easily worked with a bevelled steel point. This point simply removes the skin where it is applied, leaving a white and transpai'ent line or figure. It is stated that the point may be used as rapidly as a pencil and that it produces clean-cut white lines which form a strong contrast with the colored surface. Erasure is affected by ink applied with an ordinary writing pen, which is simply drawn through the line that is to be erased. The drawing point is so designed that it can 6e inserted in a compass when circular lines are to be drawn. Blueprints '< from drawings made on this' material give dark lines
on a white ground,
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 17 February 1915, Page 7
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172TRACINGS MADE WITHOUT INK BY NEW PROCESS. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 17 February 1915, Page 7
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