A printing plate and a process for plate-making which requires no particular plate-making apparatus, wherein the plate-making is performed by using a safe aqueous solvent. The printing plate has a resin layer 1 soluble in an aqueous solvent 3 and the process for plate-making comprises the steps of bringing selectively an aqueous solvent (water sign pen 2) like water in contact with the surface of the resin layer 1, and removing partially or wholly the resin layer 1 at the contacted portion by dissolving the resin layer in the aqueous solvent to form an engraved or perforated portion 5. The stencil printing plate has the resin layer adhered to a porous substrate by an adhesive containing a hydrophobic polymer.