What is Serigraphy?
A screenprint is produced over a rectangular frame by creating stencils on a stretched fine fabric (polyester, nylon). A printable matrix or stencil is created in the fabric by selecting areas that are to be “blocked out” and leaving other areas of open, porous fabric.

The “blocked out” or closed portions of the fabric have been coated or sealed thus rendering those areas of the fabric imporous; the areas or portions where bare fabric is still visible are printable or open areas. Water based or oil based ink is then forced through those open areas, reproducing the mark or image (the stencil) on the surface below. A squeegee, a rubber or plastic blade supported by a wooden handle, is used to push the ink through the printable or open areas of the screen.

Thousands of stencils can be printed on one piece of fabric as each successive stencil is cleaned from the screen (reopening the entire fabric) allowing a new one to be created and printed.

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