Stencil Printing
The shared mechanic is simple, since only ink passing through openings cut in a screen or stencil reaches the paper or cloth, whether for short run booklets or dyed kimono.
Dictionary entry
- Risograph 1980s– / contemporary revival / Technique
Keeps the per-color plates and their happy misregistration, giving each copy its own body heat.
- Pochoir 1890s–1930s / Technique
Builds print color stencil by stencil, giving publications the crisp planes and fine variance of hand coloring.
- Screenprint 20th century– / Technique
Parts of a mesh screen are blocked and parts left open, and a squeegee forces ink through, printing hard contours and flat, strong color one layer at a time.
- 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.