Screen making is done by coating a silk screen with a photo-sensitive emulsion, esentially creating a large piece of film. The screen and artwork are sandwiched in a large vacuum frame and exposed to light. Paint is forced through the stencil using a plastic-bladed squeegie. The printer must skip every other repeat to prevent the silk screen frame from falling in wet ink. Each screen lays down one color - if a pattern has eight colors it must be printed eight times with eight different screens.
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