English to German Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting Radierung / etching

"Also called open biting. Means biting areas of a plate without inserting tooth or texture. Tooth may be provided in soft-ground etching by paper grain or other material pressed into the wax ground or in hard-ground etching by closely spaced lines not drawn so close that the ground separating them erodes in the acid."

Der Begriff stammt aus einem Abstract über die Grundlagen des Kupferstechens.