Tips for Silkscreening T-Shirts

Video Transcript

"AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, I've got the ink on the screen, its wet ink, it's not in the image area it's off the image area. What I want to do is hold the screen down so that it doesn't move, you don't want the screen to move during this, you know, during the actual screening process. So I'm going to hold it in the middle because if I hold it to the left or the right it'll tilt up or down, one way or the other. I'm going to hold it in the middle, basically you're going to take the squeegee and with pressure I'm going to try and pull the ink across in one swoop making sure that I cover the entire image. Just a couple little details about that, it's good to have the squeegee in about a 45 degree angle. It's better to pull the ink across than to push it across, I mean, most screeners prefer to do it that way. And then also the thing about the 45 degree angle, I mean, because we're working in a hoop here, we can probably do 45 maybe up to this point but then we might need to kind of straighten it up to get that last little bit but that's okay. So that's the idea and in the next clip I'm actually going to do it."