Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Screen Printing Technique


Screen Printing a interesting, simple textile technique that allows 
 you as a designer to print a unique print of your choice.
The printing technique uses a woven mesh placed in a frame as a stencil for your design to be printed on to. The image that you would like to print is attached by the transfer ink or sometimes another range of printing materials. These can then be pressed onto the mesh. The next step is to uses squeegee which you drag across the screen stencil. this then forces the ink through the holes of the mesh in all the open areas of your design. Here is a demonstration of the technique used: 

Photographic Evidence of Screen Printing...The Equipment

 Paper for initial testing.
 Black ink, spoon, squeegee.
 Calico testing Fabric or real one.
 Woven mesh screen with your unique image.
flat clean surface.

The Process
The Woven Mesh Screen Clean
 Placing the ink on to the screen


Using the squeegee, dragging the ink down the screen


Line of Ink ready to be dragged



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