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From Quick Guide: Screen Printing Basics

Summary: How to understand the silkscreening process; get professional tips and advice on screen printing custom designs on shirts and other clothing items in this free silkscreening video.

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Amanda Claire is a leather artist currently living in Austin, Texas, where she specializes on custom pieces that blend traditional technique with modern designs. She designs and...read more

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"AMANDA CLAIRE: So, the concept behind screen printing is that what you use is a structure called a screen. And really, what a screen is, is it's fabric. Sometimes a fabric like this, this is the one where going to use. In silkscreening, which is also a screen printing, they can use silk, or nylon or any types of fabric. But a fabric like this has a lot holes in it. I mean you can, you know, you probably can't see any through it, but it's kind of a fine fabric with a lot of holes in it. And the way that screen printing works is you get an image onto the fabric such that the part of the image that you don't want to apply color, or you know paint or whatever, ink or whatever it is, you cover the fabric with something that prevents, you know, ink from going through it and then--so now, you would have an image on your fabric and then what you do is you then apply ink over it, or paint or whatever you're going to use and you force it through the remaining holes in the screen in the fabric and that prints your image. So, think of it as kinda like doing a stencil I guess, but the stencil is made up of all the little teeny, teeny tiny holes in the fabric and you're just masking off different areas and we'll talk about a couple of different ways that's done. So in basic screen printing there's an image on the fabric and you know, there are holes that the ink or the paint can go through and holes that the ink or the paint cannot go through and then as you apply the ink or the paint it goes through the holes that it can go through and that produces your image; an image like this one."

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