Definizione

• Stipple-ground.  Surface texture of a random dot pattern covering the background usually offering contrast to a smooth surface device; also called pebble surface. Stipple-ground is a form of texture which does not require any artistic skill to apply it to a background surface; hence it is very seldom used by medal designers. It can be applied by anyone with a punch and random placing of the punch to form raised bosses; these appear as dots or pebbles. The Japanese made stipple-ground an art form in the design of tsubas.  See texture.

  excerpted with permission from

  An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

  For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

  COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

  Roger W. Burdette, Editor

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