Tracing paper is a paper made to have low opacity, so that light passes through it and a drawing beneath it can be seen and copied. It is made from cellulose fibre, usually from wood or cotton, with the filler materials that ordinarily make paper opaque left out or reduced so the sheet stays translucent. Artists have used tracing paper since at least the fourteen hundreds, and it went into mass production in the eighteen eighties for architects, engineers and artists who needed to copy or transfer a drawing by hand, a use it still serves in dressmaking and craft pattern work even as technologies such as the diazo copying process have replaced its larger industrial uses. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Introduced When (Circa)Circa 1300s for earliest use by artists; produced en masse from the 1880s onward for architects, design engineers and artists 1 OriginOrigins trace to at least the 1300s, when used by artists of the Italian Renaissance. The modern manufactured form, suited to precise reproduction by the diazo copy process, dates to mass production beginning in the 1880s. 1 Introduced era (class) In the Other Atlases
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Its origins date back to at least the 1300s, when it was used by artists of the Italian Renaissance. In the 1880s, tracing paper was produced en masse, used by architects, design engineers, and artists.
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