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Pastel Dry Pastels may have been a late-fifteenth or
early-sixteenth century invention of the French, but they first
came into common usage in Italy in the sixteenth century. It was,
however, the artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
who brought the art of pastel painting to perfection. Improved
means of fixing the chalky pastel line on paper and the invention
of various papers prepared specifically for pastel drawing eased
this development. Flocked paper, for instance, has a surface covered
with loosely matted fibres, like felt, that hold the dusty powder
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