Pounce Bag

They watched with amazement as she ran the pricking-wheel over the penciled design, then laid the now-perforated paper on a piece of fabric and used the pounce-bag along the lines of the design, tapping it expertly and firmly on the paper. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)

A pounce-bag consists of a piece of fairly open woven muslin filled with a mixture of French chalk and finely-powdered whiting; the muslin is tied up with a piece of thin twine like the mouth of a flour sack. ❋ William Fairham (N/A)

After sawing the dovetails in this manner the sides are placed in their respective positions on the drawer fronts or backs, and marked with a pounce-bag or by using the saw-blade method. ❋ William Fairham (N/A)

Other workers prefer a pounce-bag instead of a saw. ❋ William Fairham (N/A)

A humble woman, Mrs. Edkins, speaks of his spending all his holidays in the little den of a room we have mentioned, where he _locked_ himself in, and would remain the entire day without meals, returning with his hands and face completely begrimed with dirt and charcoal; and she well remembers his having a charcoal pounce-bag and parchment and letters on ❋ Various (N/A)