Pouncing

Pouncing. The technique requires the sheet, of paper or cardboard, to be perforated and placed on the surface and then beaten with a bag containing coal dust (charcoal dust, graphite powder) or a colored pigment, along the perforated outline of the drawing itself: the imprint of the original is thus brought back to the new scale surface 1: 1 thanks to the passage of powder or pigment through the holes.

Cennino Cennini (end of the 14th century) already speaks of "spolverare" (dusting) in relation to painting on wood, while Filippo Baldinucci (1681) defines the term " spolverizzare " thus: "Vale ricavar collo spolvero, che è un foglio bucherellato con ispilletto, nel quale è il disegno, che si ricava, facendo per què buchi passarvi polvere di carbone o di gesso legata in un cencio, che si chiama lo spolverizzo".

Italian: spolvero - French: Poncif - Spanish: Estarcido - German: Lochpause - English: Pouncing