SCREEN PRINTING
TUTOR: KAREN LEWIS
Learn to screen print onto fabric using the embroidery hoop method. You will gain skills that you can take home and apply easily and cheaply to your own work. You will learn techniques that include making design choices, creating and cutting a stencil, and printing onto fabric.
Over the two days we will be moving on to repeat designs and multi-coloured prints; registration of design techniques to achieve these. By the end of the two days students will have gained experience and expertise with all these techniques and go home with ample screen-printed fabric to use in their projects. We will also cover the topic of print for design, discussing what type of prints work best for different projects.
Skill level: All levels.
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Class Requirements
SCREEN PRINTING WITH KAREN LEWIS
Two-day Class: Thursday, Friday, April 15 & 16
Class times: 10am to 5pm
Materials fee: $20
Payable direct to the tutor. Please have the exact amount in cash in an envelope with your name on it.
The kit includes:
- 1 yard of screen fabric and newsprint paper for stencils
You will need to bring:
- Inspiration/doodles/sketches
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Paper scissors
- Fabric scissors
- Plastic spoon
- Old credit card to use as a squeegee
- Old towel that you don’t mind getting paint on
- Apron/old shirt that you don’t mind getting paint on
- Fabric to print on – this doesn’t need to be pre-washed. Quilting cotton works best. Solids work best but experimenting on patterned fabrics can be fun.
- General purpose masking tape
- Cutting mat
- Craft knife
- 6” embroidery hoop
- Water based acrylic fabric paint, such as Permaset screenprinting textile paint, or other brand that specifies that it is for screen printing.