Printing - Screen Printing At Home
Learn the most simple and effective ways to screen print your own designs onto fabric and how you can set up your own workspace to keep doing so at home.
Teacher: Leslie Keating
Workshop Duration: Full Day
Description: In this six hour workshop, you will create stencils using both paper and vinyl and learn what kind of designs work best with this method. We'll also discuss other means of getting artwork onto screens including photo emulsion and using drawing fluid.
Materials: 2-3 meters of cotton calico (or other natural fibre fabric) cut up into 40cm x 50cm pieces (roughly 20 pieces) to use for test prints and then whatever natural fibre material or items you want to print on (fabric, pillowcases, t-shirts, tea towels, etc).
Takeaway: This is a technique focused class but you will go home with the stencils created during the workshop, your fabric test prints and one linen tea towel or calico tote bag (your choice) printed by you plus an instruction sheet which outlines the information given in the workshop.
Level: Advanced Beginner/Intermediate
So I wrote last week a post asking “Is my making fast fashion?”. And then I did a video on Instagram discussing similar topics in a slightly different way. And as always, you lovely humans have helped me clarify some of my thinking with your thoughtful, clever commentary.
And while I think there is so much more to discuss, here are four key possibly-more-meta ideas that have come up for me out of those conversations.
In using the quote last week that suggested that there was no single answer, and suggesting that this was freeing, I really did mean that we should sit in the grey. Not that the lack of “an” answer to this question should mean we get to ignore the question but rather that the lack of “an” answer means that we need to keep asking bigger more beautiful questions. And keep asking them.
Is my making fast fashion?
Am I living my values or merely thinking them?
And how can I make those two things a little more aligned in this moment?
These are my big beautiful questions.
Yours might be different.
And importantly this leads to point 2.