“I’ll stencil anything that doesn’t move,” says antique dealer-turned- artist Terry Swing, who has a cache of furniture and fabrics to prove his point. But the motifs he produces are a far cry from ...

PORTSMOUTH — History is Leah Caswell's inspiration. Often, Caswell draws upon historic paintings or designs to create the patterns for the line of stencils she has manufactured and marketed since 1984 ...

Stenciling is an old art form. Neanderthal artists created patterns using their hands as stencils. They blew powdered pigment across their hands to capture the outline of their fingers on the walls of ...