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Title: Art crafts for amateurs
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Fred, decorative artist
Subjects: Decorative arts Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York, London, Truslove, Hanson & Comba, Ld.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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roduced.Almost any form can be cut as a stencil, the human figureitself not excepted, though it is a question whether it is notputting a somewhat severe strain upon stencil-cutting to treatthe h uman form as a stencil -plate. But birds, fish, and insectsare very effective if appropriately treated. In No. 160 wehave a repeating border, in which fish and insects are pro-minent features. Two plates are necessary, and these areshown on a smaller scale in Nos. 161 and 162. Birds caneasily be adapted from Japanese drawings, two of suchadaptations being given in Nos. 163 and 164, which aregood instances of the translation of forms by the method ofstencilling. There are many designs scattered through thesepages which could be easily adapted for stencil cutting. In No. 165 a stencilled wall-hanging is shown. The designis very simple, a quaint ship and lines suggesting water.Stencilling is very effective on any woven fabric, and eitherliquid dyes or oil-colour thinned with spirits of turpentine
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sian blue, raw sienna, burnt sienna and gamboge, beemployed, made very thin with turpentine, they must also be 220 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS, used on a light fabric. If a dark coloured textile be stencilledthen the colours must be opaque or nearly so. Canvas thusstencilled makes excellent coverings for walls and for hang-ing in front of clothes-pegs to protect garments from dust. Using Stencils. Stencilling can be done either in colours mixed with water or oil. In the formercase it is distemperthat is employed, i.e.,whiting mixed withhot size and tintedwith powder colours,such as can be ob-tained at any goodoil shop or decora-tors. Some colourscan be had groundin water. For the decorationof walls stencilling isadmirable, as dis-temper is easily usedrthere being a tooth to it, and the colour sinks in and dries quickly *consequently a sharper impression can be obtained in dis-temper than in oil. In mixing distemper colours it mustbe borne in mind that they dry very much lighter than theya

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