At Home Silk Screening on the Cheap! : 6 Steps

Table of Content

• Pick & Print an Image
• How to Silk Screen
• Create my account
• Step 5: Set Up Screen
• It exposes very quickly and has a wide exposure time range.
• Setting Up

Your shower head or outdoor garden hose work well. Spray the screen with luke warm water focusing on the image area.Not hot, not cold. You also need something that's matte black to put your screen on for the exposure. A black piece of cardboard or bristol board would work well too.

For this tutorial I'm using a basic tree. For your first screen printing subject try something that's just a silhouette and one colour. Something like my tree or simple lettering is perfect. I rationalized that I tend to go a bit extreme at times, and chances are .. You might not be willing to go to the edge with me. So I simplified everything about screen printing at home so that virtually anyone could do it no matter how much space or money you have.

Pick & Print an Image

Dry fully before printing as damp emulsion damages easily. Comes with a long lasting LED hanging lamp fixture and legs for exposing EZScreen stencils. Exposes in just 30 minutes using transparency film. In your dark room,run a bead of emulsion across the top of your screen.With your squeegee, draw the emulsion down over the entire screen on both sides. You want thethinnestcoat possible.

Here are some things about the Native Americans that the kids should know from school. Basic needs The Native Americans had to work hard to meet their basic needs. This way they will know how the world has advanced and how meeting these basic needs are more convenient than it used to be. This way the kids will learn not to consider these basic needs so lightly. They will learn that you have to work hard to achieve things. Use maps The kids should know in which part of the globe the Native Americans lived by using a map.

How to Silk Screen

You can either use a squeegee you own, or buy one at the craft store. Your photo emulsion comes in 2 parts. The container you see here, plus a little bottle of stuff you have to add to it to activate it. Photopolymer liquid emulsions work well even with poor light sources. At this point, refer to the ink paint you are using in order to determine how long you must wait for it to dry.

They also provided some insight and tips that improved my results. When you have a low UV light source will make a huge difference toward success or failure when making a stencil. And more difficult to implement into a typical home-made exposure unit. As a result, you don't see them used as often. The ideal light for screen exposures is one that is rich in ultra-violet light.

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When I first started this little nod to the 60's adventure in 2012 I was ready to get all set up professional style. Build a light box, use all high end materials, maybe even get stoned and sell my wares out of the back of a Volkswagon camper van. Perfect for teens (or adults ;) I love your review – honest and accurate. I feel the same as you – I’ve ordered more screens now that I feel a little more confident.

To make your own screen printing frame screw 2x2's together like I've done below. It doesn't need to be perfect, just solid and flat. This isn't the time to use up your warped wood. To get the design to transfer to your fabric, you pipe a line of paint across the top of the screen, above the design.

How to Screen Print at Home

He lifts the whole hoop, nylon and glue combination off the shirt after painting. Put it on when you go out and show off how good of quality a t-shirt can be, even when not using expensive silk screening machines. If you don’t have a scoop coater, take a flat card and spread the emulsion as evenly as possible. Over the screen, the coat shouldn’t be thick.

Now that your screen is dry to the touch you are going to prep your film to be exposed on the exposure unit. This step will vary depending on what type of exposure unit you are using. As previously mentioned, this Cricut screen printing method is used for those looking to print as a hobby or to just produce a few prints of each design. It is a great introduction to screen printing and will help you to understand the printing process if you don’t have any prior experience with it. Price is something to keep in mind when looking at these two methods.

Step 5: Set Up Screen

Remove both light guards; they may create shadows on your stencil if they are not removed. I'm curious where you got the grey shirts with the different colored stitching around the neck as seen in the last image. WIRED is where tomorrow is realized.

When the ink is very dry, heat set the image by pressing it with a dry iron. Then, going in the same direction, run over the image with the squeegee again with some pressure to push the ink through the screen on to the fabric. Just keep spraying and eventually you'll see the image start to appear more and more as the emulsion washes away. You've just made your first silkscreen. Carry your dried screen with the emulsion on it over to your light area.

It exposes very quickly and has a wide exposure time range.

I need to make multiple shirts with the same design and I don’t want to have to remake the design for every shirt. Thank you for any help you may be able to offer. Amanda Formaro is the crafty, entrepreneurial mother of four children.