IMO Gouache would be a better choice than acrylic because acrylic dries so rapidly and cannot be reactivated. Acrylic will ruin any brush it dries on, not a desired quality for an extremely slow process like pochoir. Most acrylic paints dry shiny. Gouache, on the other hand, dries to a beautiful matte finish. It can be applied opaquely or diluted with water to achieve transparency, and can be reactivated from a dry state with the addition of more water. I'm pretty sure the pochoirs from the 1920s were made with gouache.
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They were almost exclusively... and the quality and range of colour in gouache is much better too. What I would like to know is how were the thin metal plates cut to make stencils.... lots of mysteries in those old techniques....