Screen printing is a technique to reproduce multicolor designs on tiles and flat surfaces. It is used in the sign painting industry and it is easy to find books on the process. Ceramic inks are available from suppliers or can be mixed from stain pigments and oil or glycerin bases. Screens may be printed "on contact" or "off contact" The latter gives a sharper image, the screen is held off from the printed surface by a small distance (1/8" to 1/4") and as the squeegee is pulled, the screen is stretched down to make contact with the printed surface. After the squeegee passes the screen snaps back up. Improvisation is often to key to this process and incredible results are possible.
This method, in its basic form, involves laying a pattern of an insoluble material in outline on a finely woven fabric, so that when ink is drawn across it, it is able to pass through the screen in the desired area only.
A printing method, that uses a pattern of an insoluble material, in outline on a finely woven fabric (the silk screen), so that when the ink is drawn across it, it is able to pass through the screen to the print medium in the desired areas only.
a decorating stencil of taut woven screen is secured in a frame. Nonprinting areas of the screen are coated with a masking material. The screen is placed over the object to be printed and a squeegee forces ink through the noncoated areas of the screen.
A stencil process based on the porosity of silk (nylon or other fabric) which allows ink to pass through the areas which are not "stopped" with glue or varnish. One or more layers of ink are applied, each one covering the open areas of succeeding screens until the final composite image is achieved.