"The book of delightful and strange designs being one hundred facsimile
Illustrations of the art of the Japanese stencil-cutter to which the
Gentle reader is introduced by one Andrew W. Tuer, FSA
Who knows nothing at all about it."
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text above is a title page of the book Japanese Stencils compiled
and published 1892 by Andrew W. Tuer. the colour design above is from a Mimicri painting www.mimicri.co.uk where we are putting together a source for similar arts and crafts.
See the picture Butterfly and Tiger at
www.mimicri.co.uk/tiger.htm
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In this our first PDF collection are twelve stencils from Andrew Tuer’s book We use his original reference numbers. The originals are the same size as you are able to print out from your desk top. (The solid black is ink hungry so you might wish to use ink saver software to make 50% savings on plain paper... you can also disable the colour inks).The collection comprises-stencils numbered here as in Tuer's notation The page number following is in Adobe reader No 1 Chrysanthemums and butterflies. page 1 No 3 Carp and waves page 12 No 7 Stylised Chrysanthemum No 8 Umbrellas with owners crests.page 5 No 14 Hairy tailed tortoise. page 6 No 16 Splashed design page 7 No 17 Carp and cataract.page 8 No. 29 Grapes and leaves page 10 No 31 Cranes with pines. page 9 No 39 Dragons and clouds page 11 No 40 Carp and waves page 12 Nos 42/3/4 trio. page 2 |
Katagami –stencils For more than one thousand years Japanese paper
stencils have been used in the
process of dyeing textiles. The patterns include geometric shapes,
animals, fishes, cranes, flowers, landscapes and everyday objects. The
patterns are an art form in their own right. Some are constructed for
repeat dyeing; others are for single designs. They are cut into sheets of
handmade mulberry paper laminated together and waterproofed with persimmon
tannin. In other forms the early Japanese made use of redundant documents
to cut their katagami. Please note, in their
original published form these reproductions were longer than the
convenient same-size A4 format we have followed. |
