Stencil Printing

孔版印刷

Dictionary entry

  1. Screenprint 20th century– / Technique

    Blocks and opens a mesh stencil, forcing ink through with a squeegee — hard contours and strong, even color, layer by layer.

  2. Ise Katagami Muromachi period– / Technique

    Dyeing stencils cut from persimmon-tannin laminated paper: drill, tool and stripe cutting produce continuous patterns so fine that the stencils themselves startled fin-de-siècle Europe as an art of line.

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