The birds were a very common motif in ancient Japan, especially on designs for katagami (Japanese paper stencil) technique of decorating fabric or in brush painting.
On this page you can download the stencil pattern called "Japanese Stencil Plate".
This stencil is a digitized version of an illustration from the old book „The manipulation of the brush as applied to design: a course of brushwork for elementary and secondary schools“. Beneath the illustration, it is noted that this is a Japanese stencil plate. It depicts two birds, one flying and the other clinging to a branch.
Pattern category
Free vector categories
Available file formats
In the image you can see what the stencil look like and you can download it in 2D CAD (dwg) or vector (svg and eps) file formats.
Pattern license
Download SVG vector file format
Download DWG file format
Download EPS vector file format