The stencils shown in the illustration were collected by Ernest Fenollosa, an authority on Japanese art.
Little has been written about these stencils but many museums and school art departments have collections.
In cutting stencils the Japanese use a number of tools. Some of these tools are of the nature of punches, being the shape of the cut out place. There is no drawing on the stencil paper, the workman looks at the design and cuts the pattern free hand. The paper, before cutting, is treated with oil and a kind of lacquer.
The old stencils were strengthened by a net work of human hair placed between two stencils cut at the same time. These stencils were then pasted together with rice paste. This net work of hair serves as ties in the stencil and permits a larger freedom of design than is otherwise possible.
The Japanese use two methods for stenciling, the direct coloring method, in which the dye is brushed on the material through the stencil, and the resist method, in which a paste is rubbed through the stencil on the white goods and the fabric dyed in an all-over bath. The color is set by steaming and the paste washed out. This leaves a white pattern on a colored background.
THE INDEX
| Page | |
| Acid colors | [46] |
| All-over dyeing | [35-42] |
| Basic colors | [46] |
| Block printing | [126-130] |
| Characteristics of batiks | [14-22] |
| Colors, mixing of | [49-53] |
| Costumes, decoration of | [79-85] |
| Crackle | [14] |
| Designs, old batik | [23-34] |
| Direct colors | [45-46] |
| Direct coloring, method of | [43-44] |
| Discharge process | [43-44] |
| Dye-baths, preparation of | [37-39] |
| Dyeing over old color | [36], [52-53] |
| Dyeing, shaded | [41] |
| Dyes | [45-49] |
| Dyes, setting of | [44] |
| End papers | [77] |
| Fabrics, drying of | [41-42] |
| Fabrics, dyeing of | [35-53] |
| Fabrics, preparation of | [35-37] |
| Frame, batik | [55], [57-58] |
| Graying of colors | [47-50] |
| High school, batiks in | [65-74] |
| History of batiks | [11-22] |
| Holland, batiks in | [12], [21] |
| Interiors, decoration of | [86-96] |
| Japan, batiks in | [21] |
| Japan, stenciling in | [136-137] |
| Java, batiks in | [11-20] |
| Javanese costumes | [16-18] |
| Jewelry, costume | [77-79] |
| Linings | [82] |
| Pattern dyeing | [42-45] |
| Petroplast ornaments | [77-79], [81] |
| Plays and pageants | [97-108] |
| Principles of dyeing | [35-53] |
| Resist processes | [43-45], [54-74] |
| Sarongs | [13], [16] |
| Sizing | [36] |
| Stages, miniature | [98-106] |
| Stencil dyeing | [130-137] |
| Stenciling, Japanese | [136-137] |
| Stenciling, resist | [132-134], [137] |
| Stick printing | [123-127] |
| Stick tying | [45], [116-122] |
| Sulphur colors | [46] |
| Theater, The Little, Dyeing for | [97-108] |
| Tie-dyed work | [109-122] |
| Tjanting | [18], [60] |
| Tjap | [18-20] |
| Vat dyes | [46] |
| Vegetable colors | [48-49] |
| Wax, batik | [14], [58-60] |
| Wax resist processes | [54-74] |
| Wood, decoration of | [54-56] |