Stencilling, a cheap and simple process of printing on various surfaces letters or designs; the characters are cut out in thin plates of metal or card-board, which are then laid on the surface to be imprinted, and the colour, by means of a brush, rubbed through the cut spaces.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Stella * Steno, Nicholas