Fit to be seen: stencils for architects, engineers and surveyors

Kindel, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9995-5891 (2010) Fit to be seen: stencils for architects, engineers and surveyors. AA Files, 61. pp. 100-109. ISSN 0261-6823

Abstract/Summary

A study of artefacts, documents and texts that illustrate stencil use by architects, engineers and surveyors. Spans a period from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, with a focus on nineteenth-century British practices. Draws on accounts by J. G. I. Breitkopf, Benjamin P. Wilme, and William Ford Stanley, among others.