Job Description:

• 1) Sketches, photographs, and etches cloth designs on zinc plates in form that can be transferred to printing rollers by mechanical pantograph process, using precision measuring and drawing instruments, camera, and etching chemicals: Studies design and production sheet to determine number of times design will be repeated around roller, size of sketch, and number of plates required to complete sketch.

• 2) Lays out reference lines on design according to location of one complete repeat of pattern and number of plates required to sketch pattern, using straightedge and pencil.

• 3) Draws reference lines on zinc plates, using dividers, straightedge, and pencil.

• 4) Places design under weighted door of camera and moves camera up graduated scale to enlarge pattern to specifications.

• 5) Positions zinc plate on table beneath camera and aligns reference lines on plate with reference lines of reflected design.

• 6) Traces around reflected outline of design, using diamond stylus, leaving specified spacing between colors to compensate for color, type of cloth, and etching process.

• 7) Corrects flaws left in design by designer or artist, and reproduces design so that it will be practical for printing.

• 8) Immerses sketched plate in acid solution to etch lines of design.

• 9) Washes etched plates, using water and brush.

• 10) Records number of times design will be repeated around roller, number and size of plates in design, and spacings left between colors on production sheet.