The set for Sleuth was a box set of a gothic style interior. Two of the main walls had a very detailed wallpaper pattern. Because the pattern was so intricate we decided that a bobbinet stencil would be the best plan of attack. The designer had graciously sent us a scaled print out of the pattern, which made our job so much easier.
We started out by pouncing the pattern on to two sheets of craft paper. One sheet was set aside for later, while the other was covered in packing tape on both sides to help make the stencil studier and somewhat resistant to the paint so it wouldn't fall apart. After the sheet had been covered in packing tape we began to cut out the pieces. In this instance we were going to be spraying in the negative spaces, so we cut out and saved the positive pieces of the images. After we had finished cutting out all of the pattern we laid our other full pounce sheet out. This was used as a guide for the pattern and we adhered the cut out pieces on top lightly with masking tape to keep them in place. This step can been seen in the picture below.
The next step was to lay the bobbinet material over our pattern as well as the frame. Once the bobbinet was adhered to the frame we began to glue the pattern pieces to the fabric. This was done using a hot glue gun. We traced along the outside of each piece to make sure that it was firmly stuck to the bobbinet.
Once all the pieces were glued and the frame secured the stencil was finished! Ta-da!
And here are some pictures of the finished walls on stage.
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