Pochoir

ポショワール / 1890s–1930s / Technique / Stencil Coloring

Builds print color stencil by stencil, giving publications the crisp planes and fine variance of hand coloring.

Sharp color planes / Stencil edges / Hand-color variance / Fashion plates

Pochoir — Gazette du Bon Ton, “Mirage” by Paul Poiret, 1920Pochoir — バルビエのポショワール 1922Pochoir — ポショワールのファッション図版 1923
Gazette du Bon Ton, “Mirage” by Paul Poiret, 1920 ／ バルビエのポショワール 1922 ／ ポショワールのファッション図版 1923

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Flat, luxurious plates of fashion and ornament · Handworked color for limited editions
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

Source: Wikimedia Commons / Rijksmuseum — Gazette du Bon Ton

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