Word: stenciled
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Commercially, the silk-screen process has long been used in decorating textiles, wallpaper, bottle labels, 5-&10?-store drinking glasses. Anthony Velonis, who was trained at New York University, began working with silk screen on a WPA art project. He uses a stencil cut out of a plastic, or built up with glue, on fine bolting silk, through which paint is squeegeed and imprinted on paper. For each color a separate stencil is used. An average print takes from four to ten stencils...
...linotype to set up his copy, he could compete with many a metropolitan newspaper in neatness and variety of makeup. When the World wanted to print an election extra with a special head, Fitzgibbon went around the corner to a department store, made his paste-up head with a stencil, printed from that...