"Pochoir is a refined stencil-based technique employed to create
prints or to add color to pre-existing prints. [It] was
primarily used to create prints devoted to fashion, patterns,
and architectural design and is most often associated with Art
Nouveau and Art Deco. [..] Pochoir begins with the analysis of
the composition, including color tones and densities, of a color
image. Numerous stencils were designed as a means of reproducing
an image. [C]oloristes applied pigments using a variety of
different brushes and methods of paint application. The thick
paint medium, gouache, causes a build up against the stencil's
edge resulting in a surface elevation that can be both seen and
felt [and] textural variety is achieved by varying the technique
for applying the paint: daubing, spraying, spattering, or
sponging are the most common choices. The manual aspect of
pochoir has been both one of its most valuable attributes and
one of its greatest failures as a medium. Pochoir is both labor-
and time-intensive, making it