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So something I've been meaning to do forever is make, from scratch, a Delta Rune hanging to tack to my wall over my altar (and maybe other places?) I've taken a major step forward in accomplishing that, I'm very happy to report! I created a stencil of the Delta Rune on a 20' x 28' piece of thin cardboard by using a grid to hand-transfer a Delta Rune design (http://undertale.wikia.com/wiki/File:Delta_rune.svg in fact) to the cardboard. Then I cut the holes out with a sharp hobby knife and tested with a bit of spray paint on some dirty oriented-strand board out in the garden.
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These photos show the start of the method. I used Inkscape to lay down a grid over the Delta Rune graphic (cropped to just the shapes inside the escutcheon) then drew that grid with 1" squares onto my cardboard. Then I copied as best as I could, eyeballing it, the pattern from the smaller grid squares to the larger ones.
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Slowly the pattern advances towards completion. This part of the task took about two hours all told.
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And finally I cut all the holes out with an Exacto knife (note: a proper rubber cutting board, like seen in the second photo, makes this job much more pleasant than improvising with a piece of Masonite, as seen in the first photo.) Then I tested the finished stencil with some spray paint. ^_^
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#creativetoot next, applying the beeswax / turpentine solution, waiting for it to dry
turpentine may have been a bad choice of solvent. The wax is still gummy and it's possible there's just enough of some high-boiling residue in the turpentine that it's staying behind and keeping the wax from fully hardening.
I'm gonna try using things like floor polish and car wax as "resists", too. I mean, why not? I've got cheap fabric to burn on tests
#creativetoot the next step: I'm preparing a solution of beeswax in turpentine which I intend to apply to white cotton fabric as a wax-resist for immersion dyeing. Sort of like batik, only I want the wax to go all the way into the fabric, not just lie on the surface.