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More on Ironing T-Shirts to Heat Set Image for Silkscreening

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Summary: More on how to iron a silkscreened t-shirt; 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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By Amanda Claire
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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: All right, now I've turned--I've already done three to five minutes on the front side. Now I've turned the shirt inside out okay. Now the ink's on the inside I really want to protect the visible side so I'm going to go ahead and put this cloth inside the shirt kind of on top of, let's see let me see how I can do this, going to kinda flip the shirt up like this so I can see the image here, I'm going to put the cloth on a--kind of on top of the image, here to kinda protect the other side of the shirt, here we are, turn it over and now, you know it's--I'll probably going to wrinkle it a little bit but that's not a problem. Now, what I want to do is iron the back of it again for three to five minutes. And this just really helps set this fabric ink so that it really gets permanent and you can wash it and you'll have your excellently awesome silkscreened shirt forever so. Oops! The cord's caught cut up a little bit. All right, three to five minutes to this side here we go."

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