Photo-emulsion screen prints
I posted this first by mistake on my In the Kitchen blog. Now I'm putting it here where it belongs, and have added a brief comparison to thermofax screen printing in the first paragraph. Last week I made a couple of silk screens using a photo-emulsion process for getting the image onto the screen. Here's an explanation of photo-emulsion screen printing . Happy as I am with the napkins I've printed with paper laminated screens , I was interested to try out the photo emulsion process, as certain other things are possible with this method. (The same things are also possible with a thermofax screen , but the maximum width of a thermofax screen is 8.5." I could make these photo emulsion screens 18" square, and one could go larger.) I can print a sharp-edged image, including a fine-line drawing (detail above, and image of whole screen below). I wrote out in caps the same quote from Martin Buber that I've used before, but I did it on a much smaller scale, writing ...