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TRAME GRAIN [2 records]

Record 1 2005-09-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lithography, Offset Printing and Collotype
DEF

A screen in which the dots are not ranged along right lines, but they are almost unlined.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lithographie, offset et phototypie
DEF

Trame dans laquelle les points ne sont pas rangés au long des lignes droites, mais quasi sans trames.

Spanish

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Record 2 1985-05-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engraving and Printmaking (Arts)
  • Intaglio Printing
CONT

A process working from a direct photograph ... If halftones and blacks are needed in the final result a grain of some sort must be established ... Commercial halftone screens ... concentric curvilinear screens, or an irregular dotted screen known as mezzotint or aquatint grain ... are available.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gravure d'art
  • Impression en creux (héliogravure)
DEF

(...) plaques de verre qui ont été poudrées à la résine, puis mordues à l'acide fluorhydrique et noircies.

Spanish

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