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Making a Silkcreened T-Shirt

December 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

 Just a quick look at some parts of t-shirt making. It’s my first time printing on shirts. Like I said, the bazaar pushes us to make things. It’s a work that’s been procrastinating way too long.

The positive is positioned on the shirt to be printed. This is called positive to screen registration (to align the image to the intended position on the shirt). There’s another way to register which is by using an overlay, but that requires the screen to be inked/flooded first, it’s a little risky because textile inks dry quick, and while registering, the inks may dry and clot the screen. I should have been printing on a t-shirt press, but I’m actually making only one print a screen and don’t really have to worry about continuing an edition.

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How I Made Them

November 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Some images showing parts of my screen-printing process.

 

This is the screen and the brown parts are painted with screen filler to cover up pinholes.  

Using Photoshop to decide colour scheme.

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