As a matter of fact, as many as three thousand copies have been made from a single mimeographic stencil of this character.
The current from a small battery suffices to energize the pen, and with the stencil thus made hundreds of copies of the document can be furnished.
When the desired wording is cut, the cardboard is torn off at the perforated line, leaving the four holes which attach the stencil to the roller of the mimeograph machine.
First see that the pad on the machine is well inked, and then fasten the stencil to the pins at the top of the roller and with bar at the bottom, seeing that it is smooth.
Some stencil paper or waxed sheets do not require this treatment of "Dermax"; instead a tissue or silk sheet is placed under the stencil paper.
A stencil (tissue paper, usually blue, fastened to a sheet of equal size waxed cardboard) is cut by a typewriter.
Point paper, paper pricked through so as to form a stencil for transferring a design.
This net work of hair serves as ties in the stencil and permits a larger freedom of design than is otherwise possible.
It is interesting to stencil the open pattern in one or more colors, then apply the resist and give another color to the background.
There is no drawing on the stencil paper, the workman looks at the design and cuts the pattern free hand.
The stencil is carefully and thoroughly cleaned in the same way and then pressed and dried.
The process for "resist" stenciling is as follows: The stencil is laid upon the surface to be decorated, and the open pattern is carefully covered with a thin layer of library paste or paste made from flour and salt water.
To make these, a stencil should be cut for each color.
The stencil is at once lifted and the color desired for the background is sprayed in a flat tone over the entire surface.
The operation is performed by passing over the stencil a brush charged with colour, which entering into the cut out lines imparts the figure to the material beneath.
The name of variety and our trade-mark is put on the barrel with stencil or rubber stamp.
I prefer eleven-peck barrels, filled full enough to head without bruising, stencil the end and haul to market in a lumber wagon.
The free end of thestencil is then raised, the cloth passed along the proper distance by hand and the stencil dropped in place for the next application.
To print, thestencil was raised and the cloth brought to place under it.
The accompanying engraving shows new form ofstencil pen invented by Mr. J.
Then take a black paper stencil or a small contrasty film negative, cut a hole in a piece of black flannel somewhat smaller than the negative, and tie around the egg to hold the negative.
Immediately after taking off the bag, paste a black paperstencil or a very contrasty negative to the apple with white of egg.
Next lay the stencilin a small shallow dish and pour a small quantity of fresh nitric acid over it.
How to Make a Copper Stencil for Marking Laundry A stencil suitable for marking laundry may be easily made as follows: First procure a small sheet of "stencil sheet copper," about 1 in.
The design will be eaten away in a very short time, where the wax has been removed, and this may be readily observed by holding the stencil plate up to the light.
The stencil may be given a final cleaning in a dish of benzine or gasoline, which will remove any remaining wax.
When you have cut them stencil them on to the piece of paper to form the second plate, and having drawn or transferred the rest of the design to this second piece of paper you cut out the rest of the pattern.
This is a practical disadvantage, for if a stencil is very weak it is apt to break all up while you are using it.
One of the arts of successful stencil cutting is to make the "ties" form part of the design, and by a little management this can be done.
If the sprig is to be put in and you want it against the web-background, you stencil this latter in first, and when dry the sprigs upon it.
The stencil too would be very weak, as the "ties" would have to be so numerous.
I don't wish to point to my own work more than to say you can learn the method of stencil cutting by referring to the designs I have given to illustrate the subject.
If by chance you cut through a "tie" while cutting your stencil or break one when using it mend it with gummed paper or stamp edging.
Illustration: 4 Repeating stencilof fish and arrow-head, with insects and water lines.
Next lay the construction paper on the Japanese rice paper and trace on it the stencil design.
Make a stencil that will fit in one of these sections.
Charge the brush with thin, thoroughly mixed pigment; if there is too much it will scrape off under the edges of the stencil and spoil the print.
If stencil brushes cannot be obtained one may use a common, round, house-painter's brush, wound with string to within an inch of the end.
So now he laid down his stencil brush (within easy reach) and said, "We're going to start a refreshment shack and sell fruit and lemonade and waffles and things and maybe auto accessories and souvenirs.
He sat behind his card-strewn counter holding the stencil brush like a sort of weapon ready to besmear that face of sneering assurance if its owner ventured too near.
He was somewhat handicapped in the preparation of these signs by the largeness of the perforated letters of the stencil and the limited size of the cards.
But a glance at Pee-Wee's gummy stencil brush reminded Mr. Gamely that discretion was the better part of valor.
The cardboard or leather stencil, laid on damp leather and placed in the press, will sink in, causing those parts of the leather which are against the open parts of the stencil to stand out in relief.
The most satisfactory method of marking the design is by impressing a stencil of thick paper, but it cannot be employed with morocco leather for fear of crushing the grain too much.
A large short-haired brush[13] is used to take the dye from a plate, or pad, and is then rubbed very lightly over the stencil firmly fixed on the leather.
It's my nightmare that some day I'll let the stencil slip and make a smudge on the wall.
Why don't you go to Miss Tatham and ask her to let you stencil them?
Miss Tatham, however, examined her work privately, and after a long talk with Miss Joyce summoned Lesbia to the study and announced that she would be allowed to stencil a border in VA under the close superintendence of the Art Mistress.
I must see some of your stencil work first, and have a talk with Miss Joyce.
There are infinite possibilities in the use of stencil design without counting the introduction of gold and silver, and bronzes of various iridescent hues which are more suitable for rooms of general use than for bedrooms.
Not one defective apple was packed, for I was determined that the Four Oaks stencil should be as favorably known for fruit as for other products.
I saw the wife of a German stencil engraver, who assists her husband by cutting out with scissors the parts that form the letters.
A young lady, keeping an embroidery store in New York, told me her father cuts stencil plates with chemicals for embroiderers.
There are very few stencil cutters in the South and West.
Some persons cut stencil plates and make indelible ink, and employ agents to sell the ink and plates.
The making of embroidery stencil plates, he thinks, would do better for a woman, and that could be done without any regard to seasons.
The price of stencil plates has fallen very greatly.
A stencil engraver told me he cannot use acids in his work, because his lungs are weak, and it is very injurious.
A stencil cutter in New Haven writes: "I have made tools for ladies to do the work of making embroidery stencils.
In the cheapest paper, the outlines are printed and the colors put on by stencil plates.
I saw a man that manufactures indelible ink, and employs agents to sell it and stencil plates.
They are twice as high in price as stencil plates.
It is of a softer nature than glass, and is applied with stencil plates and brushes.
The ornaments are usually done with stencil patterns, and the lines are done with straight edges and lining fitches.
A good and cheap stencil ink in cakes is said to be obtained by mixing lampblack with fine clay, a little gum arabic or dextrine, and enough water to bring the whole to a satisfactory consistence.
The original is prepared by the now well-known stencil process; that is, writing the matter required with a type-writer on a sheet of waxed paper.
Paper fed into the machine is gripped by a rubber impression roller, which presses it against the stencilas the cylinder revolves, and the sheet perfectly printed, is then automatically discharged on the other side.
In a similar manner by dividing the spectrum into any two portions whatever--as, for example, by the complicated stencil shown in Fig.
If we substitute a stencil which admits only red rays, we shall obtain a beam of light in which no colour but red can be seen.
The first glass cuts off all the spectrum except the red and part of the orange, just as the first stencil does, though the line of demarcation is not quite so sharp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stencil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
