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Description
1) A finely powdered pigment used to imprint or transfer a pattern from one surface to another. Pounce is usually composed of charcoal, chalk, pipe clay, or umber.
2) A finely powdered resin used as a sorbent for ink. Resinous pounce is usually composed of sandarac mixed with pumice or cuttlebone. It is sprinkled over calligraphy to prevent the ink from spreading.
Synonyms and Related Terms
1: stamping powder
Sources Checked for Data in Record
- Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)
- Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982
- Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, at http://www.wikipedia.com Comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pounce_%28calligraphy%29 (Accessed Mar. 1, 2006)