Number X in Professor Charles Pellew's series for The Craftsman, on applying modern synthetic dyestuffs to stenciling on textiles. It describes Japanese stencil practice and gives recipes for a wheat-flour and zinc oxide resist paste used with Sulphur and Vat dyes. It also gives a basic-color stencil paste fixed by ironing and a tartar emetic bath. The article is illustrated with old Japanese stencils from E. T. Shima's collection.