Ironing T-Shirts to Heat Set Image for Silkscreening

Video Transcript

"AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so we're back we printed six different items with our screen before we washed the screen out, we let them dry so you know we're talking to you couple of hours later here, really let them dry thoroughly. Some of them look better than others. This was a pretty good print here on this red shirt. The image came out pretty nice and clean. This one, you know, I didn't really have the bandana flat so there's some places where the ink didn't transfer so it's good to learn from kinda these mistakes but you know even the mistakes look cool I mean this looks--you know has kind of a vintage look and you know I mean the important details are here I mean you still have the face, you can still kinda tell he's got a gramophone. So even the mistakes make great gifts and you know they kinda have a funkiness to them. But anyway the ink is dry now. Now what you need to do is heat-set the ink. You really can't wash these or I mean you can wear 'em but you really don't want to wash them until the ink is heat set. So I got my iron here, it's already been heating up and I'm going to get it on a medium to high setting, you know, maybe 75% of full and you need to do both sides of the image. And so I've just got kind of a bandana here I'm going to use this like a protective cloth, I'm just going to fold this in half and here I'll move this one out of the way, I'll do this gray one here first. And I'm just going to lay this cloth right on top of the image okay, it's a little bit wrinkled but it doesn't matter, smooth it out a bit and then I'm going to heat-set it for three to five minutes on each side okay. So I'm going to keep the iron in motion just like ironing anything else and what this is going to do is just make sure that that fabric ink is really set in the fabric and so that it won't wash out. So three to five minutes on each side I'm doing the front now and in the next clip I'll do the back of this shirt."