 
Stephen Hazel (1935-2012) used pochoir in this print in the Ritchie Family Collection.
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You may wonder, though, where I got
this strange name for a fictional character, and what is the meaning of
the word "pochoir".
The name Serah merely sounds
similar to the word seri, which refers to silk - the fiber from
which the old silk screens and their predecessors in Asian stencil
printing (such as Kata-Gami) were made.
Pochoir is a simple
stencil technique that is associated with greeting cards, folk art and
interior decoration, such as stencils on walls, ceilings, floors,
furniture, fabrics, etc. Incidentally, the word silk screen is misleading today
because nylon and other fibers have replaced silk.
Try another choice.
- GM
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