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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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Fig. 143.—Knives for Cutting Stencils. metry of ornamental forms which the copying ofoutline examples 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 and em-bossers. Having prepared the paper, the processof cutting out will be found to demand the great-est care, and, above all, well ground and sharpenedtools. Have an oil-stone within reach, therefore,
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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. The bestblade to my fancy is the example A (Fig. 143),while the angle cut, B, is equally useful forstraight lines. C, is another useful shape for veryfine work. In cutting, the knife should be held firmly be-tween the forefinger and thumb, the thicker partof the blade resting lightly against the tip of thesecond finger. The stencil paper should be heldin its position b)^ the left hand. In cutting a curvedraw the paper gently but steadily awa)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 o

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