Textile Screen Printing: Design and Print Your Patterns

Overview

“We go with the first step in the stamping process, the preparation of the screen. This part is essential so that everything goes well later. Remember that you have to have the photosensitive emulsion at hand, your positive with the printed rapport and the scraper. You can skip this step if you order your screen already engraved with your image directly from one of your local suppliers. Anyway, I recommend you read the resources that I leave at the end of this unit.”

In this video lesson Ana Escalera Moura addresses the topic: Positive and Emulsified, which is part of the Domestika online course: Textile Screen Printing: Design and Print Your Patterns. Create unique designs with infinite repeating patterns.

Partial transcription of the video

“Positive and emulsified We are going to move on to the emulsification process. As we are going to use a liquid sensitive to light, we need to be in a place with a red light, yellow or at least not have a large spot of light nearby, especially stay away from the windows. We will also use a scraper. This tool will be very useful to us. Generally, scrapers have two profiles, one beveled and one blunt. Beveled profile leaves less emulsion layer and the blunt leaves a larger emulsion layer. The emulsion layer on the screen it will be equal to the layer of ink that will fall on the fabric, that's...”

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Course summary for: Textile Screen Printing: Design and Print Your Patterns

• Level: Beginner
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• 5 units
• 16 lessons (1h 14m)
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• Category

  Craft, Illustration

• Areas

  Fashion Design, Pattern Design, Printing, Screen Printing, Textile Design, Textile Printing