March, 1909 MV eLeGAN | HOMES AND GARDENS riage 
original and unique, and American craft- 
workers are adapting this process to the 
simple requirements of stenciling and are 
getting excellent results by means of an 
atomizer, through which they squirt the 
color over the work instead of through a 
syringe and screen. Others again have 
succeeded beyond their expectations in fol- 
lowing Ludwig Jungnickel’s example. 
Such developments in stenciling should 
be of great interest to those who have ex- 
perimented in the ordinary way, and skilled 
craftworkers realize that there is always 
information to be gained the longer they 
work at a craft. 
I have deliberately chosen, in this arti- 
cle, to refer to some examples of elaborate 
work in stenciling, since the craft, in many 
instances, is supposed to be quite humble in 
itself and to be limited to humble articles; 
in other words, to be comparatively unim- 
portant. This can no longer be admitted to 
Applying the colors be the case. Stenciling is a craft capable 
of being applied to work designed on a 
is only fifteen inches wide, three widths are required for por- large scale and employed in a large way, and is now being 
tieres or curtains. Needlework is also introduced in her carried out with elaborate detail never before attempted. 
pillow and table runners. Just a few bold 
stitches of Berlin wool repeat the color at 
the ends of the stringer, and give individual 
note to the work. 
Mrs. Hencke has worked out several 
problems. One of these is the difficulty felt 
by all stencilers of making the wrong side 
of a heavy material as attractive as the 
right. Mrs. Hencke has invented a process 
whereby the color appears as strong and 
potent on the wrong side as it does on the 
right. This process she does not give to the 
public, and I know of no other stenciler who 
has yet succeeded in working this out, but 
it makes her work stand alone on that 
account. 
In Europe stenciling has been taken up 
with great vigor, and a young Munich 
artist, Ludwig Jungnickel, has exhibited his 
stencils in Vienna and aroused great interest 
in the peculiar nature of his technique, which 
is an invention of his own. He uses card- 
board for his plates and cuts them with a 
sharp knife. He then prepares the back- 
ground on which the design is to be 
stenciled by giving it the desired ground 
tone. This he does by squirting all over it 
a pale color, using for the purpose a syringe. 
Worked from behind a wire screen, the 
color falls in minute particles, and the 
ground work assumes a rough, granulated 
appearance. he most pleasing effects can 
be produced in this way, as no two particles 
are ever uniform. The next step is to hold 
the stencil on this prepared ground and to 
work with a syringe and screen. Difference 
in texture is gained by changing the distance 
at which the screen is placed. He uses sev- 
eral sizes of syringes, according to whether 
he wishes his stencil to be fine or coarse in 
texture. 
Frescoes done in this way are most 
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Library with stenciled frieze and curtains with chestnut design 
