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Stick of colour used in drawing and painting. Consists of pigments, a filler and a binder. There are two types: dry pastels (soft or hard) and oil (or wax) pastels.

The pen is a writing implement that is used only to draw lines. The main interest of this technique is its ability to produce thick strokes and thin strokes, which give a drawing more life.

A term used to refer to a paper’s ability to resist ageing. Standard ISO 9706 defines the requirements

An alternative process used by a few very demanding photographers, including, at the beginning of the 20th century, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Irving Penn and others. The particularity of this technique lies in the impregnation of finely divided platinum salts, allowing the image to be

This refers to a family of earth-red pigments. They may also have an orange, ochre, brown or beige tint. They are used in crayons, chalks and sanguine-coloured pastels. They were originally made from haematite, a rock containing iron oxide.

Printing technique that uses stencils (originally silk screens) placed between the ink and the substrate. Various substrates can be used and they need not be flat (paper, card, textiles, metal, glass, wood, etc.).

A copper or brass wire or thin strip of cotton fixed onto the cylinder mould. This serves both to define the size of the sheets and to reduce the thickness of the fibrous pad at the place where it is fixed. It is this thinner

Technique for covering items such as boxes by gluing a material or printed sheet on its surface. It is used to cover binders, boxes, tent cards etc. The “turning-in” part consists of folding the material or printed paper over the edges onto the back of

When they come off the machine, the webs of paper are unwound. The sheets are torn off one after the other and subjected to a final visual inspection over a light box.

Velin or wove paper has a smooth surface and when held up to the light no marks are visible.