Stencil Techniques:

Creating Bridges

Wednesday, 4 November 2009

The white areas are the areas that will be cut out

- so you need to make sure that no black areas are enclosed by the white

Wednesday, 4 November 2009

If left these islands in the stencil will fall out at the cutting out stage

Wednesday, 4 November 2009

To correct this you need to add BRIDGES so there are no separate parts to your stencil

Bridges also make your stencil stronger

Wednesday, 4 November 2009