A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921.

ORDER XVI.—MAKERS OF AND WORKERS IN PAPER; PRINTERS, BOOKBINDERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, ETC.

Sub-order 2.—Printers, Bookbinders, and Photographers

535.—Wall Paper Printers—Block

block printer: lays colour on sieve, i.e., a felt covered frame, with a brush, and presses wooden pattern block on it; raises block, by hand, or in large pattern work, by means of elastic to which block is suspended, and swings it round; carefully presses block on paper to correspond exactly, or register, with pattern.
decorator (paper staining): elaborates design on high class printed wallpaper by printing with hand blocks in gold, silver and special colours.
stenciller, stencil worker: stipples designs on wallpaper with a brush, using stencil plates and distemper colour.

From: A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921,
Ministry of Labour, 1927. Digitised by Peter Christian, August, 2016. This text is in the Public Domain.