Silk Screen Printing - Advanced
Overview
This honor takes your printing skills to a more professional level. You’ll learn how to build and prepare your own screens, work with different materials and mesh sizes, master advanced stencil techniques, and create multi-color and specialty prints. This honor moves screen printing from a simple craft into a serious design and printing skill. You’ll learn how professionals prepare screens, control detail and color, create repeating patterns, and print on unusual surfaces. By the end, you’ll be able to take an original design and turn it into a professional-looking print on a variety of materials!
Requirements
1. Have the Silk Screen Printing honor.
2. Properly stretch and secure silk screen fabric to a frame.
3. Know what fabrics can be used in silk screening and the advantages of each. What factors influence the choice of mesh count for the screen?
4. Understand and use each of the following silk screen printing techniques:
- a. Hand cut film stencil method
- b. Photographic method
- c. Resist method
5. Use two of the following techniques in meeting requirement 4:
- a. Print a design using two or more colors in proper registration
- b. Print a repeat or all-over design
- c. Print a three-color design using only two colors of ink
6. Print on a material other than paper or fabric, such as glass, metal, or leather.
Answer key & resources
Master awards
This honor counts toward:
Investiture Achievement
This honor is required, suggested or listed as an option in:
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