Pochoir
ポショワール / 1890s–1930s / Technique / Stencil Printing
Builds print color stencil by stencil, giving publications the crisp planes and fine variance of hand coloring.
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At a glance
Visual cues
- Sharp color planes
- Stencil edges
- Hand-color variance
- Fashion plates
Best used for
- Flat, luxurious plates of fashion and ornament
- Handworked color for limited editions
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Fine serifs and restrained captions
- Composition
- Center the figure or product; keep plane and margin contours clean
- Material
- Opaque spot colors layered per stencil; keep the small density shifts
- Caution
- Not the same as flat vector fills. Design the stencil separations, printing order and hand variance.
- Further study
- Gazette du Bon Ton / Paul Poiret / French fashion illustration
Related entries
- Art Deco (アール・デコ)Shared effects: Luxury.Compare Pochoir and Art Deco
- The Face (ザ・フェイス)Shared effects: Luxury.Compare Pochoir and The Face
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