screen printing

Firstly I had to prepare a screen. This includes cleaning the screen, making it photosensitive and transferring my repeat pattern on to the prepared screen. Once I had a screen and colors all I had to do was print onto fabric using a squeegee I spread the ink across the screen 3 too 4 times to get the pattern to  print onto the fabric. I worked out from this process that there are several factors that can affect your print quality. the type of fabric can effect your print quality. The type of fabric effects how many times you need to go over the screen with the squeegee to get a good print, the lighter the fabric the less times you need to go over it. the screen has to be bone dry after washing it to print in a different color or the print could bleed and the paper underneath the fabric is secured down or the print could come out incomplete. All of these I worked out because I made these mistakes at least once.

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