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How did wheel engraving replace diamond-point engraving in the Netherlands?

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In the Netherlands, diamond-point engraving was a popular technique throughout the 17th century, practiced by both talented amateurs and professional artists who created delicate, linear designs on glass. However, by the end of that century, this method was superseded in popularity by wheel engraving.1

While diamond-point engraving involves scratching the surface with a diamond tool to produce fine, spidery lines, wheel engraving utilizes a rapidly spinning copper wheel fed with abrasives to incise three-dimensional patterns or pictures into the glass. The shift occurred as the artistic preference moved away from the delicate, calligraphic style of diamond-point work toward the more robust and sculptural possibilities offered by the wheel-cutting technique.12