Hi!
I'm fairly new to screen printing, and recently embarked on a project that started simple but has ballooned as it's grown and evolved, it started as making a single, simple T shirt design using a paper stencil and acrylic paint, after posting images of it on the internet people became interested in it and enquiries were made about me doing a run of them. I try and use a recycled ethos in most of my creative endeavours so looked into methods of screen printing on a budget using recycled materials and started experimenting. I managed to Mcgyver a screen using an old picture frame and curtain netting, and played about with using printing ink and a paper stencil but the weave appeared to become slightly clogged and as I was using a paper stencil, could not clean the screen with water, eventually I gave up and cleaned the screen completely.
I'm now looking into low impact, environmentally friendly ways of creating a stencil on a screen that can be washed after use whilst still retaining the stencil, I've looked into a few methods but they seem to use solvents and chemicals I'd prefer to steer clear of, to stick with my original ethos. Any suggestions would be amazing.
Thanks.
Advice wanted on low impact screen printing
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