When the koi nail stencils arrived at the grocery store: The koi and the store
When the Japanese koi was discovered to be a native fish in 1904, the koan nail stencher came out of nowhere.The Japanese artist created the stencil by stamping out the names of his own fish.The stencil’s popularity exploded, and over the next few decades, more than 200 stencil artists would create them.The fish stenchers would […]
