Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. image-making equipment
8. stencils (image-making tools)

Anotations

Scope note:

Marking tools comprising thin pieces of material, such as metal, paper, cardboard, or stencil film, into which the shapes of letters are cut so that paint or ink applied to the surface of the stencil tool will produce the image of that letter on a second surface through the cut-outs.