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AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so the way--remember think about how silk screening works, okay? You're--it's kind of like having a stencil, but it's at a very fine scale because...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so let's just define what we're going to be doing here today. So we're going to be doing a type of screen printing and there are many different kinds...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, I've got the ink on the screen, its wet ink, it's not in the image area it's off the image area. What I want to do is hold the screen down so that it...

AMANDA CLAIRE: Okay. Now, I'm going to set my image up to trace it onto the screen. And I've got my embroidery hoop, the screen is stretched. I've got it in the orientation...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right. So here's my finished screen. It's--the fabric's nice and tight. It's stretched across but I haven't really pulled it too much to...

AMANDA CLAIRE: Okay, I've pulled it, I'm going to put the squeegee over here and I'm going to lift it straight up. Ooh, it looks great. Great screen here, I actually got pretty...

AMANDA CLAIRE: Okay. So here's my image. When I print, the flat side of the screen will be down after I, you know, get the glue on to it. Now, so the thing I'm going to do now is start...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right. So the first thing I need to do is to cut a piece of fabric out of this big piece here that will fit this embroidery hoop. And it sounds kind of like a no-brainer, but...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so we're back we printed six different items with our screen before we washed the screen out, we let them dry so you know we're talking to you couple of hours...

AMANDA CLAIRE: So in standard screen printing, like the screen printing where professional print shops that make a lot of t-shirts, or you know a lot of art prints, posters, the way that works is...