DIAPERING (n.)
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Diapering is derived (as I take it of the Greeke verbe διάπερω which is, traÿcio or transeo, in English to passe or cast over, and it is nothing else but a light tracing or running over with your pen (in Damaske branches, and such like) your other worke when you have quite done (I meane folds, shadowing and all) it chiefely serveth to counterfeit cloath of Gold, Silver, Damaskbrancht, Velvet, Chamlet, &c. with what branch, and in what fashion you list.
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I. Diapering, is a tracing or running over your work again when you have (as it were) quite done, with damask branches, and such like.
It is used to counterfeit cloath of gold, silver, damask, velvet, chamlet and the like with what branch and in what fashion you please : it is derived from the Greek word [...] transeo, to pass over and onely signifies a light passing over the same again.
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