Letting Glue Dry for Silkscreening T-Shirts

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"AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so now we want to let it dry--although before I do that I just want to point out that, imagine if we had those little corners those little floppy corners here that we didn't cut off, you know they flop around and everything and every time they come and touch the image they would pick up glue and they might flop the other way and put glue where you didn't want it to be and then you know it's kinda screwed up because now you have holes plugged you didn't want plugged. So that's kinda one reason we cut those off and it's kinda easy to see now with the thing coated with glue to understand kinda what I mean about that. So we have it--our image is there, remember the image what's going to print are the holes--the pores of the fabric are still open everything else has been closed with the glue. Now we want this to dry. So you know there's a couple of things I guess you could do--I guess I could dry it flat like this but the problem is it might take a while for it to dry that way because it's not really getting much ventilation other than kind of what's going over the top. Another thing to do is you can hang it like this in that way it's getting ventilation from both sides. You can even put it outside the only problem is, is depending on how windy it is, you don't want, I don't know, little bits of dirt and dust and leaves and twigs and grass or whatever sticking to the glue. So I mean, maybe you might think that windy day might be good--a good day to dry something like this outside but it's just kinda depends on how much debris is in the air. Another thing you could do if you're careful is to just, you know if you just want to sit down and dry it, is to just grab it and just kind of go like this and what I'm doing is you know obviously forcing air through the screen where I haven't put glue and it's just sort of drying both sides so different ways to dot it. It'll probably dry best if it can dry from both the front and the back because remember it is a porous material and the glue goes all the way through. So you know I'll do this--what I'm going to do is I'm going to do this for a little while and then I'm probably going to hang it up probably indoors 'cause it's a little windy outside today. So I'm going to hang it up indoors just so it can dry from both sides and you know probably go have some lunch and when I come back it should be dry. And for the most part it should be transparent, not transparent but kind of a translucent look to it. Right now you see it's still kind of white in some areas and that's one clue that it still hasn't dried all the way. So I'm going to let this dry and then come back later and then we will print it."