Pochoir vs. Stencil — What's the Difference?

A technique in visual art consisting of applying various stencils (perforated templates).

Stencilling produces an image or pattern by applying pigment to a surface under an intermediate object with designed gaps in it which create the pattern or image by only allowing the pigment to reach some parts of the surface. The stencil is both the resulting image or pattern and the intermediate object; the context in which stencil is used makes clear which meaning is intended.

A sheet, as of plastic or cardboard, in which a desired lettering or design has been cut so that ink or paint applied to the sheet will reproduce the pattern on the surface beneath.

The lettering or design produced with such a sheet.

The process of printing with such a sheet.

To mark with a stencil.

To produce by stencil.

A thin sheet, either perforated or using some other technique, with which a pattern may be produced upon a surface; a utensil that contains a perforated sheet.

Pattern A pattern produced using such a utensil.

A two-ply master sheet for use with a mimeograph.

To print with a stencil.

A thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate.

To mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.

Device that has a sheet perforated with printing through which ink or paint can pass to create a printed pattern

Mark or print with a stencil