Editing Stencil (section)

==History==
[[Image:SantaCruz-CuevaManos-P2210651b.jpg|thumb|right|Prehistoric [[hand stencils]], [[Cueva de las Manos]] in Argentina]]
[[Hand stencils]], made by blowing pigment over a hand held against a wall, are found from over 35,000 years ago in Asia and Europe, and later prehistoric dates in other continents.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ghosh|first1=Pallab|title=Cave paintings change ideas about the origin of art|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29415716|website=BBC News|date=8 October 2014|publisher=BBC News}} "The minimum age for (the outline of the hand) is 39,900 years old, which makes it the oldest hand stencil in the world," said Dr Aubert. "Next to it is, and this is one of the oldest figurative depictions in the world, if not the oldest one," he told BBC News. There are also paintings in the caves that are around 27,000 years old, which means that the inhabitants were painting for at least 13,000 years."</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Pike, A. W. G. |author2=Hoffmann, D. L. |author3=García-Diaz, M. |author4=Pettitt, P. B. |author5=Alcolea, J. |author6=De Balbín, R. |author7=González-Sainz, C. |author8=de las Heras, C. |author9=Lasheras, J. A. |author10=Montes, R. |author11=Zilhão, J. |title=U-Series Dating of Paleolithic Art in 11 Caves in Spain |journal= Science |date=15 June 2012 |volume=336 |issue=6087 |pages=1409–1413 |doi= 10.1126/science.1219957 |pmid=22700921|bibcode=2012Sci...336.1409P |s2cid=7807664 }} Abstract: "... minimum ages of 40.8 thousand years for a red disk, 37.3 thousand years for a hand stencil, and 35.6 thousand years for a claviform-like symbol".</ref> After that stenciling has been used as a historic [[painting]] technique on all kinds of materials. 
Stencils may have been used to color cloth for a very long time; the technique probably reached its peak of sophistication in [[Katazome]] and other techniques used on silks for clothes during the [[Edo period]] in Japan.  In Europe, from about 1450 they were commonly used to color [[old master print]]s printed in black and white, usually [[woodcut]]s.<ref>[[A. Hyatt Mayor|Mayor, Hyatt A.]], ''Prints and People'', Metropolitan Museum of Art/Princeton, 1971, no. 51, 65, 80, {{ISBN|0691003262}}</ref>  This was especially the case with playing-cards, which continued to be colored by stencil long after most other subjects for prints were left in black and white.<ref>[[A. Hyatt Mayor|Mayor, Hyatt A.]], ''Prints and People'', Metropolitan Museum of Art/Princeton, 1971, no. 15, {{ISBN|0691003262}}</ref> Stencils were used for mass publications, as the type did not have to be hand-written.