GR translation:

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Mark.

This seems to involve treating a surface with metal brushes to make it more
rough for various purposes. I could be totally wrong though.

Interestingly, "dry-scratching" is also a form of punishment:

Instead, children's characters were molded by frequent praise or positive
reinforcement, and by shaming and ridiculing for unacceptable behavior.
Even mothers who "*dry scratched*" a misbehaving child with fish teeth
meant to embarrass him ...

https://books.google.ca/books?id=5Gckga7uPoUC&pg=PA72&dq=%22dry-scratched%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEkQ6AEwCDgKahUKEwiFib-kv-vHAhWWjpIKHeCaAFQ#v=onepage&q=%22dry-scratched%22&f=false

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1917 Report:
> BASE OR BACKGROUNDS FOR GYPSUM PLASTERS'oe GROUNDS Method of Setting
> Grounds f "For wood lath, the total nominal thickness including lath
> wood lath and plaster shall be % inch for three-coat dry- scratched or
> ...
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > V646.40-647.3   . . . here the two men are, dry-scratched precisely,
> > attentively on this afternoon, and the bells across the canal are tolling
> > the hour: the men have come from very far away, after a journey neither
> > quite remembers, on a mission of some kind. But each has been kept
> ignorant
> > of the other’s role . . . .
> >
> > What exactly is "dry-scratched"?
> >
> > I have found one reference that might be relevant:
> >
> >
> https://books.google.ca/books?id=t9n14bcARecC&pg=PA65&dq=%22dry-scratched%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB8Q6AEwATgeahUKEwjarfrD_unHAhULXZIKHQlFAbk#v=onepage&q=%22dry-scratched%22&f=false
> >
> > I guess it would apply to media other than pottery as well?
>
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