What is screen printing?
Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas.
The first thing we printed on was paper, and we did it in pairs because it was easier to work flooding and printing. Once we had learnt how to do that, we moved onto different materials; netting, leather, felt and other fabrics. Moving onto glass from then was quite easy, as the glass didn't move around like the fabric.
One colour printing moved to multi-coloured, and then we learnt how to layer up different patterns on top of each other.
This are some examples of screen printing onto glass. The hearts were done by simply painting enamel onto the glass. Both techniques look quite effective, and it's the one we've used the most throughout the project.
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