Windsor’s butter paper offers excellent transparency at a modest weight, balancing cost and quality—especially great for design students, illustrators, architects, or tattoo artists needing overlay capability without the expense of heavier tracing vellum.
Key Features:
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Paper Weight & Transparency: Lightweight at 52 g/m², this butter paper is semi-transparent, making it perfect for tracing overlays or preliminary sketches.
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Sheet Count: Comes in a convenient 40‑sheet pad, ideal for classroom use or design roughs.
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Size: A3 (297 × 420 mm), giving you plenty of space for larger projects like layout drafting, calligraphy, or art overlays.
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Surface Finish: Smooth finish that works well with pencil, ink, charcoal, crayons, felt-tip pens, and more—without excessive bleed or feathering
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Binding & Backing: Typically taped at the top (glued block pad) with a flexible chipboard backing for stable sketching and easy sheet removal.
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Tracing and overlay work: translucent paper lets you accurately trace designs.
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Preliminary sketches: Create multiple versions by layering sheets.
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Drafting and layout composition: perfect for architectural, graphic, or typography planning.
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Mixed-media: Prelim sketches with pencil, ink, charcoal, and other dry media flow smoothly on the surface.
