Show to make book plates one way to malze make effective book plates is to have a stencil through which you can work up the slips in watercolors water colors stencils are cut from oiled stencil paper or board but it if you are going to make very many it might ml 9 ht be well to have a metal stencil elac butr ut as the paper or cardboard will soon wear out look through the magazines 7 for sonic some appropriate design or group and trace it to your stencil paper cut it up into little portions as you would a jigsaw puzzle so that all the dei design n is in parts nii all joined by small bridges to each other 0 cut ut out the design leaving the bridges firm with a sharp knife holding tho the stencil over glass or maible as you cut when complete proceed to color through the stencil onto thin cardboard or watercolor water color paper A dozen or so of 0 these book plates at a n time will not be a strenuous task and the result will easily repay labor |