Finishing the Screen for Silkscreening T-Shirts

Video Transcript

"AMANDA CLAIRE: So I'm pretty far along with it, with getting this screen prepared. I mean, you can tell it's tight, kind of like a drum, you know? It's not stretched. And actually, you can see a couple of places that's not totally tight. Like, here you could see there's kinda like a little dimple, it's sort of loose there. It's kind of loose here. So at these final stages what you really want to be--excuse me--you want to be kind of tightening this, the wingnut. Just make it tighter and tighter all the time. And as you're doing it, gently, kind of, grab the edges here and kind of pull it through and just kind of get it, like I say, as tight as you can without really distorting it and stretching it out. You see, sometimes you'll pull a little bit and you'll get a little wrinkle. Try to pull that wrinkle out if you can, because the goal is to just get it flat and tight and ready to go. And then once you do, you really tighten the hoop up, and I'm already going to give it a good spin. So now I'm kinda done with getting that fabric in there. So it's pretty--about as tight as I want it, you know, again, nice and tight. Nice and tight and flat. Now, I'm going to take my scissors and cut all these corners off because they're just in the way and they're just going to make a mess. So that's what I'm going to do now."