Inspired By Nature?

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While on vacation, not working, my mind was having a hard time resisting the urge to not work. Everywhere I went I saw fabulous prints and patterns popping up in nature. It was really gorgeous. And I got to thinking about some of my favorite modernist designers and how they expertly transformed the natural world [...]

Read more → May 6, 2009

Birding and the perfect pattern.

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I’m vacationing right now so technically I am not supposed to be working/ blogging but I can hardly stop myself when I’m surrounded by all these amazing prints and patterns that keep popping up in the local wildlife. I learned last year while visiting Florida that birds always sit together facing into the wind. I guess they [...]

Read more → April 22, 2009

Screen Printing Registration Part 3: Fabric Registration

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part 1/part 2/ part 3
Here’s how to set up your fabric on your print table so you can print repeating patterns over and over again!
Now that you have exposed your screens and are relatively sure that each image has been properly registered you can set up your table registration. You are going to make certain [...]

Read more → April 14, 2009

Screen Printing Registration part 2

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Are you ready to start making beautiful lengths of fabric? Then you need to get the skinny on fabric registration!

part 1/ part 2/ part 3
This tutorial is the second in a three part series and is the first step in fabric registration. before we can begin to learn how to register a print on the table for [...]

Read more → April 9, 2009

What Is Screen Printing Registration? Part 1

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part 1/ part 2/ part 3
And More Importantly, How Do You Do it Well?
Learning how to register your prints is a very important skill and helps you jump from craft hobbiest to serious printer. Knowing how to register your prints allows you complete many multiples of your prints in about the same amount of time [...]

Read more → April 7, 2009

Can you Explain That Again?

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Still wondering what all these screen printers are talking about? Well, here are some more terms, in plain speak, to keep you in step with the screen print pros!
Flooding The Screen: This is a single stroke of the squeegee that is done with the screen in a raised position. Holding the screen up and off the print surface, [...]

Read more → April 6, 2009

“SCREEN PRINT: The Ultimate Guide” Sneak Peak

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When I began my career as a screen printer eight years ago I had been out of textile school for a couple of years and my printing skills were rusty- to say the least. I had been designing textiles for a company in NYC but I longed to ‘get my hands dirty’ again. So I built my [...]

Read more → April 1, 2009

Screen Printing On Paper. It’s like this.

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Once you know how to print on paper you will see a whole world of artsy opportunity open up!
The difference between printing onto paper and printing onto fabric is that fabric is absorbent and paper is not. So when you pass a squeegee over fabric it will absorb the ink but paper tends to let [...]

Read more → March 27, 2009

The Private Lives of Cats and Dogs: digi-download kit

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Inspired by all the ways cats, dogs and birds make me happy I thought about doing a stencil project about some of the ways we can make them happy! And so I created The Private Lives of Cats and Dogs- digi-downloads stencil kit. It’s full of great stencils of cats, dogs and birds doing what [...]

Read more → March 25, 2009

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