In the past weeks, we had a try on silkscreen printing! I was excited about it as I had never done this before! Here’s what I had done and got my design on the tote bag and T-shirt.
I chose the quote “The cold never bothered me anyway – Elsa 2013” from the movie Frozen.
We printed out the design on transparency paper first.
After the silkscreen is cleaned and dried in the oven, we had to apply the emulsion on both sides of it and let it dry in the oven again for about 20 minutes. Then the transparency paper and the silkscreen were placed together in a machine to get the designs onto it.
Then, we had to go inside a small room with red lights and use the water spryer machine to spray away the excessive emulsion on the silkcreen.
After its done it looks like this.
When its dried and done, it was taped at all sides. The senior said it was to cover up the holes in between.
Ink was added to the silkscreen on the top and it was brushed down with a wooden tool. Below are my test prints on paper. I did plenty of times and overtime it came out a different one! ><
Finally, I tried it on the tote bag itself. Actually i was quite worried but its turns out quite well. It seems easier to print on cloth than on paper.
On T-shirt too!
So that is the entire process of my silkscreen journey~ I was satisfied with what I got. Really learnt a lot from this experience and had fun! Gonna work with the rest of my quote designs!