Preferred label
stencilling
Alternative label
stenciling
Note (en)
Note
Method of creating multiple copies of a design by cutting it out of a thin yet durable piece of sheet material, such as thin cardboard, paper or parchment, and dabbing, pouncing, sprinkling, or rubbing a pigment through the openings (cut-out stencil). Stencilling and colouration can be repeated numerous times, with different colours and in addition to other decoration techniques like block-printing or metal-leaf embossing. Alternatively, small pieces of material such as grains of rice could be scattered over a piece of paper, usually already coloured, and sprinkling over them to create the decoration (scattered stencil).
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Source
AAT
The Arts and Architecture Thesaurus Online, The Getty Research Institute.
Additional Reference
http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300053433 (modified)
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