Silk Screen Printing – Top 10 Resources
Success in creating your own t-shirts or screen printed items can depend a lot on getting the details just right. The following resources looks at the different techniques available in designing and creating memorable t-shirts, that you can be proud of.
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No Media Kings
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Stencil Revolution
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Fecal Face
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CraftGrrl
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Instructables
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T-shirt Forums
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Dakini
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Reuels
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EHow
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SilkscreenBiz
This is a great walk through on silkscreen preparation and printing for t-shirts and posters. If there is resource you want to save (besides Screensilk.com), it is this one.
This tutorial deals with printing up low cost t-shirts with stencils using paint. There are many ways to print stencils up on shirts, silk screens etc, but this is the cheapest and easiest.
Another great tutorial for creating your own t-shirts.
This tutorial looks at a cheap alternative to traditional screen printing. A great tutorial for learning the basics of screen printing
How to reuse old picture frames and curtains to make screens, burn them in the sun, and clean them with a garden hose.
Online discussion forum for the t-shirt industry. You can learn more about starting a t-shirt business, share tips and experiences,, get help from your peers, as well as network with others.
This online demonstration will show you one method of silk screening onto silk. This method is used to screen print gutta resist onto the silk to prepare it for painting. This way it is faster and easier to reproduce multiple original wall hangings or scarves.
Geared towards screen printing with the Speedball products, this set of instructions is very thorough in covering all aspects of screen printing techniques and troubleshooting.
How to Make Hand-Drawn Positives for Multiple-Color Silk Screen Printing
A quick explanation of color separations.
If you have additional links to articles or tutorials covering t-shirt printing techniques, please feel free to post them in the comments, and I will add them to this list.
Thanks!
March 5th, 2007 at 11:25 amGood afternoon ALL, I am very happy to be part of your forum, i have been very much facinated by screen printing and there is something i am missing out here which i need your help, The difficulty i am facing is how does this transfer process takes place supposing i have an image stored on my laptop and i want to reproduce it on a T shirt, what steps am i suppose to take and what are the needs i most have to film this image on my nylon, i believe i need the sun and a dark room but what are the steps to take and what material do i need
October 1st, 2008 at 8:37 amTaking into account the fact that i do not want to cut a stencil, because i have a large image i want to produce on a cloth at no cost, i just want steps to transfer the image like photographers do?
Thanks alot
Nest