Silk Screen Printing: individual artistry meets mass-production.

Silk screening is one of the earliest recorded printing techniques. During the Song Dynasty, artisans in China were stretching human hair over wooden frames, and making stencils out of leaves. Over one thousand years later, this technique, only a little changed, is used for everything from t-shirts to snowboard graphics to famous canvas pieces like Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe.

Process
A screen is made from a woven mesh, stretched over a wooden frame, where a paper stencil laid on top is used to block out an ink or paint.
The stencil is usaly the negative of the desired effect.
The screen is then placed on a surface or material with the ink or paint ready, a blade or bar then pushes the ink over the stenciled image, the screen can then be lifted clean away.

Some of the well known screen printing comes from the 1960’s with multiple works of Marilyn Monroe’s face by Andy Warhol. These happened after her death.
Andy was quoted
In August 62 I started doing silkscreens. I wanted something stronger that gave more of an assembly line effect. With silkscreening you pick a photograph, blow it up, transfer it in glue onto silk, and then roll ink across it so the ink goes through the silk but not through the glue. That way you get the same image, slightly different each time. It was all so simple quick and chancy. I was thrilled with it.
Marilyn Munro was an icon of Andy Warhol’s screen printing pop art sensation, it was a bold and colourful statement of the pop scene.

One the most common forms of screen printing is stencil art.
It has the same ideas of pushing ink through a stencil to show the negative image, these can be seen in most cities around the world in form of street signs and graph art or street art.
Because of the legalities of street art not all of it is athetics, a well heard of artist named banksy has been using stencils in his work.
He often is quite political and makes the viewer ask a question.
I think banksy’s work relates more to me than Andy’s rough looking attempt at Marilyn Monroes faces

history (differnt from last)

Screen-printing first appeared in a recognizable form in China during the Song Dynasty (960–1279 CE). Japan and other Asian countries adopted this method of printing and advanced the craft using it in conjunction with block printing and paints.

Screen-printing was introduced to Western Europe from Asia sometime in the late 1700s, but did not gain large acceptance or use in Europe until silk mesh was more available for trade from the east and a profitable outlet for the medium discovered.

Screen-printing was first patented in England by Samuel Simon in 1907. It was originally used as a popular method to print expensive wall paper, printed on linen, silk, and other fine fabrics. Western screen printers developed reclusive, defensive and exclusionary business policies intended to keep secret their workshops' knowledge and techniques.

http://www.articlesbase.com/graphic-design-articles/the-history-of-screen-printing-890775.html

background histpry

History Of Screen Printing

Screen printing was a technique first used by the Chinese almost 2000 years ago. They used human hair stretched across a wooden frame to form the screen. To that they attached a stencil made from leaves stuck together into different shapes. This was probably the first application of screen printing ever.

Subsequently, the Japanese adopted the screen printing process and used woven silk to make the mesh and lacquers to make stencils. The use of silk is where screen printing got its alternative name – Silk screening or silk screen printing.

In 1907, it was Samuel Simon near Manchester who patented the first ever industrial screen printing process. Many years later close to the First World War, John Pilsworth of San Francisco developed the Selectasine method, which basically introduced the concept of multi-color printing using the same screen. Different areas on the screen were blocked out for different color inks, thus resulting in a multi-colored image. This technique became hugely popular for printing signs and posters in large quantities.

From using hair to silk to polymer meshes, screen printing has come a long way today. The basic technique remains the same but with innovation and the introduction of electronics and computers, screen printing is no longer recognizable as the technique Simon patented.

ref
http://www.whatisscreenprinting.com/

screen printing and silkscreen

For many of the ways we can get image or text onto a surface one of them is stencil.
The idea that the ink or paint is pushed through a template.
How is that useful?
It was invented china and derived from the song dymasty round 1000 A.D.
This method helped china establish the first currency world wide.

Stenciling and screening would have to be the earliest form of printing, the idea was to use a block aid to construct shapes and forms.

http://www.screenweb.com/content/historys-influence-screen-printings-future
time 29/02

screen printing - posible shots

silk screen in notes?

http://www.delarue.com/ProductsSolutions/BanknoteProduction/TheBanknoteLifecyc/

first country - china used effectivly for making money/currency.

silk

how is silk screen effected the modern day prints?