Art Encyclopedia - Needle
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Needle
Needle is a generic term covering instruments which draw through an etching ground to expose metal
below the ground. Such instruments can be sewing needles thrust eye-backward into a dowel rod, compass
points, or anything strong enough to go through the ground, yet not so big as to leave a line or dot
which will etch into depression too large to hold ink.