Screen printing was another very exciting part of the day I spent helping girls get ready for the Fairfax Festival Eco Fashion Show, which takes place Saturday, June 13. We ended Part One of the prep with Annabel and her wonderful altered shirt overlaid with a screen print of a cactus.
The cactus was photographed and then traced.
A neighbor of Molly’s had helped her repair her old screen printing machine, so the girls could make prints for the show. As Molly noted, we see screen printed T shirts all the time, but we are removed from the process of making them by hand. To do so, both screen and drawing get run through a machine that looks a bit like an old copier. This creates a kind of stencil of the artwork on the screen.
This is a print Jessie made using the cactus screen.
This is a screen of the “Youth Making a Difference” logo. The girls are going to wear Youth Making a Difference shirts in a parade before the fashion show.
Molly helps Amanda make her screen print.
Anna applies paint to the back side of the screen.
It gets spread with this wonderful tool.
The finished shirt came out fantastic.
.. As did a print on this handmade hemp shoulder bag.
Photos by Susan Sachs Lipman
