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Title: 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
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Gardner, F. B. (Franklin B.)
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: New York, M.T. Richardson
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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r from thebody, and consequently against the cutting bladein the direction required by the degree of curva-ture shown in the design. A square of polishedplate glass is the best material for, cutting on.Perforations of a circular form are made by theuse of a leather-punch, procurable at any toolwarehouse. These punches are made in varioussizes, and are so constructed that the pieces cutout of the stencil paper by the cutting edge passinto the body of the punch, whence they are easilyremoved at the opening in the upper portion ofthe implement. It is not necessary to strike thepunch, a firm pressure of the hand is generallysufficient for the purpose required, slightly turn-ing the wrist at the same moment. Glass has been objected to by some stencil-cutters on the supposition that it has the effect ofdestroying the keen edge requisite in making asatisfactory stencil. Some prefer a sheet of tin as
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Fig. 145.—Stencil Designs. STONE OCHRE. 367 a substitute, while hard wood or stone has evenbeen suggested: none of these, in my opinion,equal the polished plate-glass, provided my sug-gestion as to the oil-stone be taken into account.A sheet of tin might, and probably does, answerfor the time, but the repeated indentations of thesurface and the deep cuts or scratches it receivesbeneath the pressure to which it must of necessitybe subjected, militate against its use. The edgeof the knife may not be so much injured, but thepoint may at any moment slip into one of thescratches, and that simple deviation from thedirection in which it was intended it should havegone would not improbably ruin an early completedstencil-plate. It is, again, a frequent mistake to make a sten-cil on too stout a paper. The strength of paperdoes not depend upon its stoutness; a closelywoven thin paper often possesses greater tenacitythan much more bulky specimens. Cartridgepaper may be used for almost every pur

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