How to Stretch a Silk Screen
Now that you've got your screen printing frames made, it's time to stretch the silk screen fabric. This is a project best done with 2 sets of hands, so grab a helper and lets get started! Silk Screen Fabric - I used 110 mesh (3yds will make about 26-30 frames) Staple Gun Hammer Xacto Knife or Box Cutter 1. Cut a piece of screen a few inches larger than your frame. 2. One person pulls the fabric taunt along one side of the frame while the other staples a straight line. 3. Now pulling tightly across the frame, staple along the opposite edge starting from the center and working your way out. 4. Pull the fabric towards one of the remaining sides and add 4-5 staples in the center. 5. Repeat on the opposite side with 4-5 staples in the center. 6. Work back and forth from one side to the other until both sides are stapled completely. 7. Lastly, stretch the fabric out diagonally from the corners and staple any remaining openings. 8. Tap in any raised staples, and then trim rim off the excess mesh with your knife. Remember - The screen needs to be VERY taunt. Be sure to pull tightly to remove all the ripples and bubbles in the mesh or you will not have a nice crisp print. In the end, I spent $26 to make 8 large screen printing frames, and have enough mesh left over to create at least 20 more. How awesome is that!? I also used this tutorial from Little Blue Boo to make a few tiny silk screen frames that I can use to screen print size tags into my shirts. Now I am curious, what design would you screen print first?
1. Is their such a product that will split screen a tv?
Vizio 120/240hz have it . Both POP and PIP. PIP has a small pic in the screen . POP is where the screen is split in half. Vizio is starting to blow all those pay for the name Tv's away. There is nothing that will do it for the inferior Tv's . Sorry :p.
2. what phone shoud i get?
a million. Samsung Glyde 2. Samsung Alias (this telephone nonetheless beats the env2 and it became out earlier the 1st env WTF) lol samsungs are quite sturdy OMG stay faraway from THE ENV2..... i am a verizon worker... I even have been via 6 env2s in below a mth and an a million/2.. i had my first alias and that i had it for over a 300 and sixty 5 days. . (april 07 to may08) then i've got been given the env2 because of the fact i enjoyed the seems.. omg that became a mistake (might 08 to the 1st week of july 08) i had 6 env2s.. and then i begged my supervisor to get me out of it. . so i've got been given my glyde and that i admire mine and that i've got placed this lil telephone via hell.. i even dropped it on rocks a pair of situations... and it didnt even scratch it... now ok you wanna a POS telephone get the voyager or the dare. ... lol the voyagers reveal screen will wreck because of the fact it quite is a rigidity reveal screen..you may press the reveal screen and after a jointly as the screan wo not comprehend the rigidity and additionally you may press extra sturdy and extra sturdy till it in simple terms busts sooner or later... and LG or verizon wo not cover it :(... the glyde is going with the aid of the electrical powered energy on your palms so it is smoother or maybe after the replace on 08/02/2008 it is 30 situations extra helpful and it has Youtube help besides now :) i admire my glyde. .. it is extraordinarily humorous at how the samsung glyde in simple terms got here out and that they have already got an replace no longer even 3 mths after the telephone got here out... they hear to their clientele :) Lg has had the voyager out for extraordinarily much a 300 and sixty 5 days now and that they nonetheless use the excuse our products are great. lol they even tried to tug that over my head while my first env2 broke. . i had to call LG and tell them because of the fact i became the 1st person ever to record a concern with the env2. :( lol yet i see this telephone besides because of the fact the dare coming in usual for freaking issues :( and the dare I even have bought 21 of them and that all of them have got here lower back :( suitable telephones on the community today a million. samsung glyde 2. samsung alias. 3. htc touch worst telephones. a million. lg venus 2. lg voyager 3. lg env2 razors are 4th dare is like 5 or 6 it is the in accordance to the turn around fee of those telephones. (meaning how many that comes lower back for issues)
3. The Art of Making: Hand-screen Printing
Like , hand-screen printing has been part of our process at Rebecca Atwood Designs since the very beginning. Rebecca printed some of the pillows in her first collection in her Brooklyn apartment. What makes a simple one-color pattern sing comes down to the details. The base fabric, the color, and how it's printed are all equally important. A bit of texture softens a pattern and when it's printed with dye the color binds to the fiber instead of sitting on top like it does with pigment. Hand-done processes make a difference, even if you can not quite put your finger one what makes it special. We believe in using our hands whenever possible. Screen printing means pushing dye over a screen where ink is impenetrable in certain areas to transfer a design. It is best used for patterns that are simple with few colors. When Rebecca designs a pattern to be screen printed she thinks about how it will translate on the fabric. As with most of her designs, the screen-printed fabrics begin in her sketchbook. Here she focuses on simplicity. Beautiful shapes and marks that have an effortless quality. After screen printing pillows for her first collection, Rebecca got in touch with our current screen printers in Rhode Island and a lasting partnership began. Our printers are a family owned and operated mill that has been around for over 75 years. They are truly craftsmen when it comes to hand-screen printing, with the ability to print and finish fabrics in many ways. Our printers can print with dye as well as ink. Dye lasts longer because it binds with fabric instead of sitting on top like ink, which can wear off over time. On top of this, it leaves a softer hand feel. There are times we've used ink when we want an opaque print that you can feel on the fabric-like our Spots pattern in White on Natural. While printing with ink is straightforward (what you see is what you get), dye requires a finishing process and there can be more color variation. To begin fabric is rolled out on long 50 yard tables. A large screen and squeegee, operated by two people, is used to transfer the dye across the screen onto the fabric. This method of table or flat bed printing uses hand pressure as opposed to machine pressure which results in slight variations throughout the fabrics. They print every other repeat down the long table to allow for drying time, then they will go back and print again in between the repeat. Sometimes, as with our Waves pattern, we use two screens for what could be a 1-color print to mimic a bleeding quality similar to the results of Rebecca's early printing techniques. As you can tell, it takes a lot of careful and time-consuming work to hand print even just one yard of our screen-printed fabrics. Because it is done by hand it will be slightly different and unique each time. We hope you enjoyed hearing about our screen printing process. See more about how we produce our products on our The Art of Making series on The Fold.
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