Siebdruck

Siebdruck ist eine schnelle und leichte Methode, die oft für digitale Drucke benutzt wird. Ob Sie T-Shirts für Ihre Lieblingsmannschaft drucken möchten, Poster oder auch Original-Prints, in dieser Rubrik finden Sie alles Nötige.


An Introduction to Screen Printing

An Introduction to Screen Printing

Screen printing is arguably the most modern of print techniques, yet its principles are based on the earliest form of image making with stencils. Think of the hands in the cave paintings of Sulawesi and Altamira. Over time, as artisans cut more detailed designs, fine threads or hairs were used to hold the delicate stencils together. Given that you could print on many shapes and surfaces, the transition to mass production in the US led to much innovation in stencils and woven silk mesh.

Artists explored these techniques in the first half of the 20th century coining the term serigraphy. The pop art movement of the 1960s used screen printing to its fullest, playing with ideas of appropriation, repetition, and the large passages of solid colour reflected commercial imagery. This can be seen in the work of Corita Kent, Warhol, and Lichtenstein. The Op Art movement at the same time exploited the technical perfection and vibrant colour possibilities. They made images that appeared to be untouched by human hands, as in the prints of Josef Albers.

Uniquely quick and inexpensive, screen printing bridged a gap between hand production and more expensive automated lithography and letterpress printing. The ingenuity in the art of the Cuban cinema poster was born from such economic constraints, and small runs of posters and T-shirts continue to make printing widely accessible.

You have a wide choice of possibilities for mark making, all of which can be combined into one print. Hand-painted marks, vibrant colour blocks, digital images, and colour separations can all be collaged together. Your approach can go from the most basic hand-cut stencil printed on a tabletop, to digital images exposed onto photo emulsions and printed on a vacuum table. We will be adding new products all the time, as well as informative PDF guides.