. Art crafts for amateurs . Nos. 155 and 156.—Variations of No. A, showing the effectof stencilling on a white and black ground. But a stencil need not take the simple form No. 151. Forinstance, we could cut a sort of background suggested by aspiders web out of another piece of paper, No. 153, and bystencilling this first we should get the effect shown in 216 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. No. 154. It will be noticed that a pattern is also cut to give. 159 to produce it. No. 158. have to be stencilled after the butterflies have been stencilled,so that to effect this design, No. 154, it would necessi
. Art crafts for amateurs . Nos. 155 and 156.—Variations of No. A, showing the effectof stencilling on a white and black ground. But a stencil need not take the simple form No. 151. Forinstance, we could cut a sort of background suggested by aspiders web out of another piece of paper, No. 153, and bystencilling this first we should get the effect shown in 216 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. No. 154. It will be noticed that a pattern is also cut to give. 159 to produce it. No. 158. have to be stencilled after the butterflies have been stencilled,so that to effect this design, No. 154, it would necessitate threeoperations: first the butterflies, second the background, STENCILLING. 217 third the sprigsand pattern on butterflies. Of course, differentcolours could be used in each operation so that we couldobtain considerable variety of colour by having two stencil plates to produce thecomplete effect. In continuous pat-terns we need some-thing to guide us asto the placing of thestencils so that theyfollow on at equaldistances. To thisend cut just a smallportion of the repeat,say the flower andsome of the leaves ofthe sprig to the leftof the placing this overthe impression juststencilled you can fitthe plate exactlyevery time it has tobe shifted. In thecase of the butter-flies either the bodyor a corner of thewing would act as aguide for placing theplate. This appliesequally where two or
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