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Caption: Letting Out The Tiger A screen-printing workshop with Damn Fine Print in Dublin. I wish I had brought more fabrics...
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Caption: Isn't this a damn fine place to forget the time...
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Caption: ... get dirty,
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Caption: ...and to make a little mess?
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Caption: For me this day started with a tiger
Caption: For everyone screen-printing starts with preparing a design and transferring it to a stencil. Screen-printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image. The stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate.
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Caption: Once that's done you can start to transfer your design onto paper and try out all kinds of combinations of colours.
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Caption: MAGIC
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Caption: In this version I printed yellow on top of black just a little bit off the first print.
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Caption: Then I used different colours for the rainbow tiger.
Caption: In screenprinting every tiger is unique. Just as in life.
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Caption: For printing on fabrics the machines are a bit heavier.
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Caption: But the technique stays the same
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Caption: And the tiger has to roll through this big drying machine so that it doesn't wash off too quickly.
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Caption: The last step of course is cleaning it all up so that someone else can start over again.
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Caption: The end of a day behind the shutters.
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Caption: Thanks to Damn Fine Print!
http://www.damnfineprint.com
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