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Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

Matita e tempera su eliografia

English translation:

Pencil and tempera on dyeline print

Added to glossary by ulvaferry
Apr 14, 2019 08:46
5 yrs ago
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Italian term

Matita e tempera su eliografia

Italian to English Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting captions for an exhibition of sketches
Description of one of a series on sketches at an exhibition... I tried running a Web search for eliografia, but didn't find anything satisfactory... it would seem to be a technique rather than a medium...
Proposed translations (English)
5 +2 Pencil and tempera on dyeline print
4 -1 Pencil and tempera on heliographic print

Proposed translations

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Pencil and tempera on dyeline print

http://tinyurl.com/y52f4vpv

As an architect I used dyeline printing for years and years until computer plotters took over.

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Note added at 23 mins (2019-04-14 09:10:04 GMT)
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I think Americans call it diazo print. But I'm not sure.

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Note added at 31 mins (2019-04-14 09:17:26 GMT)
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Here's how the process works- very cumbersome and there's a very strong ammonia smell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elW3ko0h5jo

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Note added at 4 hrs (2019-04-14 12:51:43 GMT)
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Yes- this would be applicable to a 1950s project because that time dyeline printing was the only way of making copies from drawings that had been made on tracing paper.

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Note added at 4 hrs (2019-04-14 12:52:02 GMT)
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*at* that time

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Note added at 8 hrs (2019-04-14 17:00:40 GMT)
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Bleueprints are a different technique, used (AFAIK) only in the US. They are called blueprints because the background of the paper is blue and the lines of the drawing are white. That is a completely different technique from dyeline printing, which prints out on a white background with the lines of the drawing in black.

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Note added at 8 hrs (2019-04-14 17:05:09 GMT)
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I think the Americans call dyeline printing "diazo printing". But I've never heard that term used in Europe.
Note from asker:
Would this be applicable to a 1950s set design sketch for a theatre show?
On this matter, diazo prints would appear to be related to blueprints... is that the case?
Peer comment(s):
agree Claudia Letizia
1 hr
neutral philgoddard : Maybe, but you haven't shown any connection between the Italian and your answer.//I was brought up to question anyone who says take it from me, I know about these things :-)
3 hrs
Let's just say that I worked in Italy as an architect for 20+ years and that was how I made all my copies. Enough for you? Probably not.
agree Barbara Carrara : I worked for a design studio between the mid-1980s and the late 1990s, and 'copie eliografiche' were produced almost daily (and I can also vouch for the smell).
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23 mins

Pencil and tempera on heliographic print

Peer comment(s):
disagree Tom in London : not the term commonly used in English
8 mins
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