Fairchild's rapid letterer and show-card maker, commercial alphabet construction with brush or pen . ully, leaving perfectly clean-cutedges. Such stencils are very valuable where duplication is re-quired, and the effect produced looks exactly as though thedesign and letters were produced by first making a line en-graving and printing therefrom afterward. The most beautiful and intricate designs in stencils are made in are usuallycut in square,measuring 14 by18 inches, butthere is a blankborder measuring2 inches, so thatthe actual layoutis 12 by 16inches. The pa-per used is theusual
Fairchild's rapid letterer and show-card maker, commercial alphabet construction with brush or pen . ully, leaving perfectly clean-cutedges. Such stencils are very valuable where duplication is re-quired, and the effect produced looks exactly as though thedesign and letters were produced by first making a line en-graving and printing therefrom afterward. The most beautiful and intricate designs in stencils are made in are usuallycut in square,measuring 14 by18 inches, butthere is a blankborder measuring2 inches, so thatthe actual layoutis 12 by 16inches. The pa-per used is theusual dark gray,tough, , about asthin as businessletterheads. The mostskilled stencilcutters sometimes require an entire week to complete suchstencils. They are used only for decorative purposes andoften contain hundreds of grass blades and the white spacesbetween are frequently less than 1-16 of an inch thick. An American workman would find it almost impossible tocut out or to use such stencils, because the foreign artisan hasan inherited deftness and lightness of touch which others
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