Entails a short history of the stencil.
While reading up on the history of the modern stencil I came across a story that is almost completely unrelated to stencils at all but rather to a person that worked with stencils and its modern popularity. Im showing this story because its irrelevant and I found it funny at the time.
‘Robert Libauer remembered an anecdote from those early years: He was called inside from an afternoon of softball and other sports activities by his father and taken into the cellar of their home to package the stencils into individual envelopes to get them ready for shipment.
Robert mumbled under his breath “son of a bitch” and resented being distracted from his play in order to do such menial work. His father was at the other end of the cellar and quietly responded to Robert’s expletive with “My mother is not a bitch”.
Robert was horrified that his father had overheard him and answered, “Gee, Dad... I wasn’t talking to you”, wherein his father calmly replied, “There’s only two of us here”.’