Editing Decalcomania (section)

==History==
[[File:Decalcomania Advertisement by W. Atkinson & Co.png|400px|thumb|Advertisement for the decalcomania process in the 1870 New York City directory]]
Decalcomania was first used commercially in England about 1750 and imported into the United States at least as early as 1865. Its invention has been attributed to [[Simon François Ravenet]] (1706–1774), an engraver from France who later moved to England and perfected the process, which he called "{{lang|fr|décalquer}}" (derived from French {{lang|fr|papier calque}}, "tracing paper").{{Citation needed|date=June 2018}} The first known use of the French term {{lang|fr|décalcomanie}}, in [[Mary Elizabeth Braddon]]'s ''Eleanor's Victory'' (1863), was followed by the English ''decalcomania'' in an 1865 trade show catalog (''The Tenth Exhibition of the [[Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association]]''); it was popularized during the ceramic transfer craze of the mid-1870s. By around 1875 decalcomania designs printed in colored glazes were being applied to [[porcelain]], an extension of [[transfer printing]], which had been developed in England since the late 18th century. The decalcomania was applied over an already glazed surface and re-fired. The process began to be mechanized from the turn of the 20th century.