I encourage customers to send me digital pictures of what they have made using our stencils and i am always surprised at the uses I never thought of. I love what this lovely gal did with the sparrow and hummingbird stencils!
Talk about customized clothing, she made her UGGS into one-of-a-kind footwear. Bravo!
Martha Stewart and Cynthia Nixon meet Stencil1
Ok, well maybe not Goth but when Stencil1 was featured on Martha Stewart, she painted the Jolly Roger stencil. Martha+Skulls=I was loving this odd Juxtaposition! Apparently, Martha LOVES Halloween as do I. So I sat in the audience as guest star Cynthia Nixon and Martha made some two-process Halloween shirts. I showed the producers a bleaching technique using Clorox Bleach Pens that I learned from Syrie at TreeHouse Brooklyn and they loved it. It was very inspiring and we are grateful for the appearance. Watch the 2 part how-to video! Stencil1 on Martha
Every year Stencil1 takes a part in The Renegade Craft Fair.
We stenciled our Dollar Store tent to bring a personal touch to our booth…
and we offered our stencils as well as custom made tote bags and t-shirts. Fun!
This was an insane spotting, I saw this kid riding a scooter on the corner right by my apartment. he’s wearing an airbrushed cap with the Stencil1 chimp stencil on it and I guess his tag-to-be Suga Papa. The boy’s sister told me his older brother made it for him. He was so shy, thanks boy!
Want to carry art wherever you go? Well now you can customize your cell phone with Stencil1 imagery! StartMobile is the place to get some our best images for your mobile.
I was on a lunchbreak from a consulting job in midtown Manhattan one afternoon when this guy walked by wearing this awesome hoodie with our turntable stencil repeated on it. I had to ask “where did you get that?” and he told me his girlfriend made it for him. How nice, That made my day!
Hello! I’m Ed Roth. No, not Ed “Bid Daddy Roth” but Ed Roth nonetheless! I wanted to briefly tell you about Stencil1. When I initially started Stencil1, I conceived it as a book of stencils. I designed 50 stencils and had them laser cut. I then designed a prototype book to shop around to publishing houses. It didn’t go exactly as I planned, most publishers just didn’t ever see a book like it since it had stencils in it so they passed. I decided to sell my designs individually and designed the website and just jumped in! So that’s how I started it.
- Hand-made Prototype of Book
So here’s how you do it…First stretch a shirt to fit nicely over a box or piece of cardboard. Next, Place the mylar stencil where you want your image to appear. You can stick some push pins into the stencil if you really want to hold it in place.
Next, you apply the fabric paint. In this example, we use a foam brush and fabric jar paint(other options are spraypaint and fabric sprayers). Hold your stencil in place and paint in all the open areas of the stencil. Go lightly, not too much paint on the brush and you’ll do swell! Stenciling is a dry-brush technique.
Once you’ve painted in all the areas, lift the stencil and you will see your work! Carefully remove the shirt from it’s box and let it dry a few hours at least. YOU HAVE TO NOW HEAT SEAL THE PAINT by ironing it or it will wash away! So iron it inside out or with a cloth between the design and the iron. Wash and Wear! And you can wash your stencil and store it for many more uses too!
How did I become the stencil guy? Well, I have always enjoyed street art/graffiti and painting /decorative arts, faux finishing, etc…Several years ago, when I moved back to NY and settled in Williamsburg, I opened an art gallery named WhoDoWeAppreciate. We had monthly shows, showcasing up-and-coming street artists. Our goal was to display and sell affordable art. After each show, we would also create an online gallery of the art for sale. This venture further exposed me to one of my passions, street art and graffiti. We had shows for artists such as Dalek and Mike Giant. After a year or so, I moved on to other work and focusing on my own artwork and designs. I also work as a motion graphics artist and work as a consultant in NY, my other company is designTechnicians. I then decided I wanted to do something a little more hand-made and off the computer so I conceived Stencil1. So that’s me!
Stencil1 is a Brooklyn based company founded in 2004 by designer and owner Ed Roth. Stencil1 designs and sells stencils inspired by stencil graffiti with imagery ranging from urban and eclectic to nature-inspired. The companies aesthetic lies somewhere between street art and decorative arts. All stencils are laser cut, washable and re-useable and are available at stencil1.com.
Stencil1 also has a new book being released in October 2008, Stencil101 through Chronicle Books.
