2 questions - pouncing, boxers

[Richard Emmans <r_emmans@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have indeed come across pouncing in my apprenticeship.
It was, however, more in the context of complex profile
work for restauration. As far as I have gathered it is a
technique adapted from fresco painting and has been put
to use when executing gothic window designs such as
rosettas. The main idea is to get the whole of the
pattern onto one sheet of pergament (or paper) and then
use the template again and again at each step of the
production. It looks somehow like templates for
dressmaking.

To use it you first draw on the pattern and then cut out
small triangles along the lines you want to transfer,
one side of the triangle being exactly on the line. So,
if, for example, you have a half-circle one meter long,
you cut your triangles approximately two centimeters
long with a one centimeter gap in between.

Putting your template on the stone then enables you to
draw along the lines that you have about two thirds of
the line on your stone, which you then complete
freehand. Scale down for smaller designs.

The original technique at fresco painting was simpler in
so far as you did not have to cut out anything. The
surface underneath being plaster you could easily punce
through the pergament with needles along your lines.

Hope this is of help to you,
Richard