. Art crafts for amateurs . ILLING. 215 ig. YOU Id slides over the glass and enables you to cut with one stroke, whereas if you cut on wood or cardboard the knife is apt to catch, which greatly adds to the difficulty of cutting. You can purchase at a good tool shop a blade coming to a point, fixed in a wooden handle, which is an excellent thing to cut with, but the small blade of a penknife will do provided you have an oilstone by you to keep it in condition, No. for in cutting curves and complicated patterns Sowin^ you want the knife to work easilv and at once. howtiesTT . have to Havin
. Art crafts for amateurs . ILLING. 215 ig. YOU Id slides over the glass and enables you to cut with one stroke, whereas if you cut on wood or cardboard the knife is apt to catch, which greatly adds to the difficulty of cutting. You can purchase at a good tool shop a blade coming to a point, fixed in a wooden handle, which is an excellent thing to cut with, but the small blade of a penknife will do provided you have an oilstone by you to keep it in condition, No. for in cutting curves and complicated patterns Sowin^ you want the knife to work easilv and at once. howtiesTT . have to Having cut your pattern you need to give be left in the paper two coats of knotting. This is a such^a kind of varnish used by house painters, and letter. can be had at any good oil shop. Lay the stencil on a piece of brown paper and rub the knotting on with a flat hog-hair brush, seeing that every part of the stencil is covered. Then hang it up to dry in the sun, afterwards varnishing the other side. If the knotting runs through. No. 152.—Simple Stencil Border, butterfly and sprig. the cut portions brush the surplus over to distribute the first coat is quite dry you can give it a second, asthe first will be pretty well absorbed by the paper. The 2I4 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. knotting not only makes the paper waterproof, but alsomakes it tough. So far for cutting a stencil. mmmm Now as to designing No. 152 we have asimple design, and if weexamine it we see thatthe pattern is as muchthe result of the por-tions left uncut as it isof the cut ones. Theseuncut parts are called ties and are an in-tegral part of all stencilpatterns, for it is obvious that if we cut the alphabet, someletters, such as B, P and O, could not be produced did wenot leave ties to keep the portions surrounded by the No. 153.—Second Stencil Plate,for background and pattern onbutterfly used in the two follow-ing designs.
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