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AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so the next thing you're going to need to buy is a fabric to
use for the screen. Now again, if you were doing traditional screen printing, there's
fabrics that are sold for that purpose, and you know, they're not like outrageously expensive,
but you know, you pay some money for them. And they're kind of these special fabrics
that are used for screen printing, you know, they're either silk or synthetic or there's
kind of different ones you can get. For this method, you don't really even need to look
for those fabrics. You know, you can go to a fabric store and just kind of look around
to see what they have. There are--you will almost certainly be able to find several fabrics
at a fabric store you can use for screen printing. Now the properties you want are first of all,
you want them to be pretty thin, okay and you want it to be fairly--I mean you can see
that it's sort of like transparent, almost I mean, you know. I can sort of see through
it and that's because it's woven out of fairly thin threads and if I look closely, there's
actually some spacing between the threads, right? And what I mean by that is if you look
at fabric like you know, a cotton knit like my t-shirt's made of you can't really see
through the holes in the threads and more than that, I mean it has kind of a complex
knit to it so it's not really built that way. A fabric like this is really just a very,
very simple you know kind of grid of threads and there's holes between them, okay. So,
that's kind of basically what you're looking for. Now the size of the holes in the fabric
are going to determine the detail that you get in your image. So if you have really,
really small holes you'll be able to get you know, a little bit more detail. A fabric that
has kind of larger holes in it, you get a much kind of rougher image and you don't want
the pores--the holes in your fabric to be too big because you still need to be able
to kind of seal them off with the glue that we're going to be using later. Another thing
about your fabric is you don't want it to be stretchy, okay? And that's really important.
You want it to kind of be, you know, fairly--I mean all fabrics stretches a little bit, but
you don't' want a stretchy fabric. You want one that kinda will retain kind of its shape
and its strength if you kinda stretch on it but, so I don't know if you can see this,
you probably can't see through it, but it's kind of a--it's not a gauzy fabric but it
is a thin fabric. And they often sell things like this for use in, you know curtains, or
I don't know maybe like the hems of dresses and skirts or whatever. Just look around and
find something. It kind of doesn't matter what color it is. I mean, I like white because
it's easier to trace your image. You probably want to get a light color because if you're
going to be tracing your image onto it but--so that's your fabric.