coloured ground

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

The decoupage technique involves cutting out words or entire sheets of written text with a sharp instrument and subsequently gluing them onto a ground that has been prepared with color (p. 184).

Evidence

"D´ecoupage – (French: cutting out) Art of calligraphy which involved cutting out words from the text with a sharp instrument before pasting them onto a coloured ground"

Remarks

This technique is specifically noted in Caption 19, which refers to a detail from the Wellcome Islamic Miscellanea (WellcomeIslCal 3) showing words pasted onto such a coloured ground (p. 194).