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From Quick Guide: Screen Printing Basics

Summary: How to trace an image for silkscreening your own t-shirts; 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: Okay. Now, I'm going to set my image up to trace it onto the screen. And I've got my embroidery hoop, the screen is stretched. I've got it in the orientation that it will be on the shirt or the paper, right, which is the flat side down. The screen's not up in the air, it's down. I've got my image behind it, but I've also got my image squared up so that I know that, you know, I mean, you know, I'm working with a circular hoop and kind of a square squeegee, so, I mean, I can't get the squeegee all the way up to the edge, right? But the point is, is I've got my image set up where I know that I can get my squeegee in there and I could do it across the whole image in one pull, all right? And if I can't, then I need to just readjust kind of where the hoop is in relation to the image. So let's try this, yeah. So there I can get it in one pull so that's good. So let me just try it one more time just to make sure that, yup, perfect. So what I'm going to do now is, I have--if you can see, I've got this image printed out. This is just another copy of the same one. It's underneath the screen. And I'm just going to take my pen, this is just kind of a fine tip, felt tip pen, you know? You can use a really, really fine tipped thing. You don't want the ink to bleed. It kind of doesn't matter 'cause all you're doing is tracing a design. But you can even use pencil if you want. I'm just going to get in and I'm just going to be careful. Like tracing anything else, you don't want to move the screen. I'm just going to go around and trace all the elements of the image so I have something to work with when I put the glue on. So that's what I'm going to do now."

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