The painters' encyclopædia. Containing definitions of all important words in the art of plain and artistic painting, with details of practice in coach, carriage, railway car, house, sign and ornamental painting, including graining, marbling ... and valuable hints and helps in scene painting, porcelain painting, plain painting, distemper painting, and all work in which a brush, pencil or palette is used (1887)
Gardner, F. B. (Franklin B.) · New York, M.T. Richardson · leaf 371
mples alone can give. The design drawn, we may now consider themethod of producing a stencil from it. Stencilsmay be cut in vellum, paper, parchment, lead foil,and thin brass ; the two latter are unsuitable tothe requirements of the decorator, the lead foilbeing used principally by glass writers… … STENCILING. 365 and use it frequently. It is quite useless going towork with a blunt knife. There is much diversityof opinion as to the most suitable blade for stencilcutting. The ordinary penknife blade is scarcelygraduated enough for the purpose, for sweepinground the curve in the pattern shape.…
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