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Tracing cloth

Scope note

Fine, thin cotton or linen cloth, coated on one or both sides with starch or a starch mixture, used especially by architects and designers for making tracings in ink or pencil.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000126981

Broader Terms used

<textile materials by function>

Created

13yrs ago

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