T-shirts

Hi, this is Mark Kneeskern with Expert Village and in this clip I'm going to show you how to iron your screen printed shirt. You want to lay the shirt with the screen printed side down onto...

AMANDA CLAIRE: Okay, there's one special piece of equipment that you are going to need to get, that's--they're really not too expensive, but you really can't do without...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so we've let our screen dry, we let it dry about an hour there was really maybe no need to let it dry that long but in the meantime, you know I got some lunch, I was...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so already we've saved a lot of money. I mean, the embroidery hoops are cheap, this fabric like this can be, you know, sometimes 50 cents a yard. I mean,...

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...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right. So now you can see I've gotten most of the glue on there. Now, I'm going to show you something sort of terrible. I'm going to flip it over, and you...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right. I've got the outer borders of all of the blocks of color in my image traced with my pen. And I want to explain a little bit what I mean by that. So this is the image,...

AMANDA CLAIRE: Okay, so one of the first things you're going to need to get are some embroidery hoops and these are really pretty inexpensive. You can get them at, you know, a fabric store,...

AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so now we want to let it dry--although before I do that I just want to point out that, imagine if we had those little corners those little floppy corners here that we...

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...