I love that you have a pterodactyl store! And of course you have to talk to them., it's impolite not to. (This from a person who says "Thank you" to automated parking machines when they give me a ticket to display. I were brung up proper-like!)
What is "some bristol"? That's a term I don't know. (I totally agree about the paper, too light is horrible.)
Bristol board is a very heavyweight paper used for drawing, or sometimes the covers of paperback books, or tickets and the like; it's not quite cardboard but awfully close.
(She got me curious too, so I looked it up.)
Which crossreferenced to Engraving, which netted me a very interesting bit of work... scroll down to where it mentions Claude Mellan, and click on the pic Sudarium of Saint Veronica. The entire work, including the lettering across the bottom, is composed of a single spiral line beginning at the tip of the subject's nose and simply varies the distance between adjoining rounds of the spiral to control darkness. Wow. May have to post that...
Ah, it sounds like what I know as "cartridge paper" (it used to be used for making cartridges for firearms, especially shotguns) in the UK. I don't know if it's still called that, it's the name I remember from when I was at school (early 70s).
Interesting engraving, I haven't seen a spiral form like that before. I remember the technique using varying distances between the lines, we used to use it to produce 3-D looking effects (again when I was at school, back then I could produce recognisable images using that method), but we used only horizontal (or vertical) lines rather than a spiral.
What is "some bristol"? That's a term I don't know. (I totally agree about the paper, too light is horrible.)
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(She got me curious too, so I looked it up.)
Which crossreferenced to Engraving, which netted me a very interesting bit of work... scroll down to where it mentions Claude Mellan, and click on the pic Sudarium of Saint Veronica. The entire work, including the lettering across the bottom, is composed of a single spiral line beginning at the tip of the subject's nose and simply varies the distance between adjoining rounds of the spiral to control darkness. Wow. May have to post that...
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Interesting engraving, I haven't seen a spiral form like that before. I remember the technique using varying distances between the lines, we used to use it to produce 3-D looking effects (again when I was at school, back then I could produce recognisable images using that method), but we used only horizontal (or vertical) lines rather than a spiral.
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