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Page 3 of 4 STEPS: - Lining - Defines edges of design areas on front and back of work piece.
- Flatting or texturing ground - Levels background around design to contrast relief against a flat or textured background and maintain form of work piece.
- Dapping/Modeling- Increases depth or height of design's relief and models rounded forms from rear between lines.
Tool uses: - Liners - used to outline front borders of pattern and peak areas between lines from back
- Flatters - used to level background areas on the front
- Backgrounders - textured face - cut, punched or filed for textured background work
- Dappers - rounded face - used to dome areas between lines and to model forms
Shapes: Liners can be straight, rounded, curved, angled etc. and sized to fit different scales of work. Flatters, background tools and dappers can also be any shape or size that you want or need. The basic geometric shapes are good to start with. As you progress with repousse you, will accumulate hundreds of tools.
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