. Art crafts for amateurs . ,by H. G. Theaker, Royal College of Art. If you wish to enlarge a design, the easiest way to do thisis by squaring. You divide the drawing up into, say,half-inch squares, and then on your paper you mark squaresthe size necessary to bring your pattern to the requireddimensions. Thus, if you want to enlarge it to double thesize, then your paper must be divided up into inch reduce a drawing work in the reverse way. It is a com-paratively easy task to fill in the squares each with itscorresponding part of the design, and in this way you insuregetting a fac si
. Art crafts for amateurs . ,by H. G. Theaker, Royal College of Art. If you wish to enlarge a design, the easiest way to do thisis by squaring. You divide the drawing up into, say,half-inch squares, and then on your paper you mark squaresthe size necessary to bring your pattern to the requireddimensions. Thus, if you want to enlarge it to double thesize, then your paper must be divided up into inch reduce a drawing work in the reverse way. It is a com-paratively easy task to fill in the squares each with itscorresponding part of the design, and in this way you insuregetting a fac simile of the original so far as proportion isconcerned. 233 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. In symmetrical patterns you have only to fold a piece ofpaper in two and draw one half of the design in pencil;then by rubbing the plain half of the paper on to the drawnhalf you obtain a faint impression of it, and so get bothsides alike. For transferring a pattern to be repeated many times pouncing is the easiest method to adopt. You prick. No. 172.—Decorative Panel, by Mr. H. C. Brewer. over the design with a needle upon a piece of flannel, andit is better to do this on the reverse side ; so make yourdesign on tracing paper. The needle holes should be fairlyclose together, like the perforation on postage crushed charcoal or powdered chalk put up in finemuslin and rubbed over the pricked pattern or pounce willleave an impression behind it which can be outlined with a DECORATIVE PAINTING. 239 fine brush to fix it, unless you can work it straight awayin colour, for, of course, the powder easily dusts off. Thismethod of pouncing is the one always employed by
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