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What is Silkscreening?
Overview of Silkscreening Process
How Commercial Companies Silkscreen
Silkscreen Printing T-Shirts at Home
Using Hoops for Silkscreen T-Shirts
Fabric for Silkscreening T-Shirts
Inks & Paints for Silkscreening T-Shirts
Using Squeegees for Silkscreening T-Shirts
Glue for Silkscreening T-Shirts
Brushes for Silkscreening T-Shirts
Preparing Your Image for Silkscreening on T-Shirts
Preparing Your Screen for Silkscreening T-Shirts
Stretching the Screen for Silkscreening T-Shirts
Finishing the Screen for Silkscreening T-Shirts
Orienting the Image for Silkscreening T-Shirts
Tracing the Image for Silkscreening T-Shirts
Using Glue in for Silkscreening T-Shirts
Painting Glue on Details for Silkscreening T-Shirts
More on Using Glue for Silkscreening T-Shirts
Cleaning Brushes Used with Glue for Silkscreening T-Shirts
Using a Large Brush with Glue when Silkscreening T-Shirts
Smoothing Excess Glue for Silkscreening T-Shirts
Touching-Up Glue for Silkscreening T-Shirts
Letting Glue Dry for Silkscreening T-Shirts
Overview of Silkscreening T-Shirts
Preparing a T-Shirt for Silkscreening
Saving Your Silkscreen for Future Printing
Inking the Screen for Silkscreening T-Shirts
Tips for Silkscreening T-Shirts
More on Silkscreening T-Shirts
Cleaning a Screen After Silkscreening
Ironing T-Shirts to Heat Set Image for Silkscreening
More on Ironing T-Shirts to Heat Set Image for Silkscreening
Finishing the Silkscreening Process
Summary: More on how to silkscreen 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.
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
"AMANDA CLAIRE: Okay, I've pulled it, I'm going to put the squeegee over here and I'm going to lift it straight up. Ooh, it looks great. Great screen here, I actually got pretty lucky. So you can see there's our image. Well, there's a little bit of spattering there but I can live with it. So now the thing is, is this ink is wet so you need to be really careful if you're going to move on to do a new shirt. So I'm going to just carefully kind of you know just, you know, maneuver it around. I'm going to kinda slide my paper out of it here, there we go and now I'm just going to go take this shirt and just lay it somewhere to dry and then after it's dry we'll have to heat set it with an iron."
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