{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "stencils",
 "type": "art",
 "names": {
  "name": "The stencil book",
  "th": "แบบสักยันต์สำหรับลอกลาย",
  "said": "A Thai book of yant designs, for tracing"
 },
 "region": [
  "mainland-southeast-asia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "kind": "object"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A volume in the corpus this site counted is exactly what its title says: yant patterns for tattooists to trace.",
  "story": "Its first page reads *แบบสักยันต์ · แบบยันต์ต่างๆ · สำหรับช่างสัก* — tattoo-yant patterns, various yant patterns, for tattooists. The plates are columns of Khom-script medallions under finials, birds facing each other into a heart shape, script down both sides.\n\n*Inference —* the existence of a tracing book is the same fact as the Burmese sample book and the Bornean carved block: the repertoire is stored outside anybody's head, and it is stored in the form that transfers to skin."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "เล่มหนึ่งในคลังเอกสารที่เว็บนี้นับ เป็นอย่างที่ชื่อบอกไว้ คือแบบยันต์สำหรับช่างสักลอกลาย"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "sak-yant",
   "as": "The tradition.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "to": "design-block",
   "as": "The same idea.",
   "rel": "tool"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:corpus"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "field"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "lanna",
  "script"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}