patterns print

• Before I could print out my designs on my fabric, it was lay out on to a silk screen. Then I tape around the designs with masking tape so that the tape areas can not be printed out. Also I had to cut some of my designs at the edges because when I did th first print on y fabric, the ink were coming out onto the fabrric. It was sumdge and came out in thick blocks. 

• then I  folded the fabric evenly in half and lay the fabric onto a printing board because I did not want any inks getting onto the table.
• Collected some newprints and alarge screen printing roller at first, which I put on the table beside me
• Placed the silk screen over the fabric flat. I mixedd up my inks by adding tetile medium into a plastic cup, add acrylic paint, getting a tea spoon I mixed both liquids together till it was quite running 
• spread the ink unto the screen with a clean spoon then tool the roller and began to roll the ink from down to the end of the tape all the way up to the end of the tape. 
• I repeated that movement for two times, pressing really hard on the screen. After removed the screen and placed at the side. The first ink came out really well and bold. So I puut a newsprint over it so it does not sumdge on the fabric or on my clothes
• Then placed the screen back over the fabric and repeated the same technique again however when I removed the screen to see the second print, I was hugely disappionted because the patterns did not come out well. The lines, some disappeared and were sumdge fill with small block of inks. I annoyed that and carried on printing knowing that no one could notice it till they come closer. And I could remove it with soap and water later on.
• But as I contianous doing the print, the patterns printed on the fabric began worst. So I looked at my screen and realized that the ink on it were dry as I was working quite slow, so I needed to wok faster. Another reason was the inks were going through the tapes that were removing from the board each time I rolled the ink up and down. Plus I did not make the ink runny enough in the cup
• So I washed my screen very clean and removed the tapes. DRied it and went to mix new inks. This I added more textile medium into the acrylic which made it very running, making it to be soft and not get dry quicker. Then retaped my screen cutting quite a lot of my designs as the patterns were very massive going off onto the screen. Cutting some of the patterns with tapes made it easier to print for me
• Collected a roller which were medium this time and repeated step four, this time once and pressing onto the screen really hard
• the prints came out right then I carried on printing placing my patterns randomly onto the fabric to make the material patterns appear busy. Then I allowed the fabric patterns to dries out first.

             Health and Safety

• do not sallow the ink
• wear gloves and apron so that ink does not get on your clothes or hands, as it is really hard to remove
• if printing on table spread nwesprint on it so that the ink does not go on it because you do not when removing te ink, there could still be stain marks
• when done with screens wash off the inks quickly because if you do not, it could get dry making it harder to remove the inks