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372 are of short hair, flattened across the end for the purpose of dabbing, fixed in round handles bound in tin or brass.

Stencilling has a perfect legitimate use as a help in laying in decorations which are afterwards to be finished by hand pencilling. When stencilling is thus made only a

preliminary process, the design may be treated freely. Breadth and simplicity are no longer essentials, and in making the plates ties may be put in at random, or wherever they will give greatest strength, for all traces of them can be removed, as before said, with the pencil, yet a difficult

matter in purely stencilled work, as the pencil will not give precisely the same texture as the stencil brush. Thus used stencilling becomes an invaluable aid to an indifferent decorator, who by this means gets in all the main details leaving only unimportant parts to be made good afterwards by hand work.