Silk Screen Techniques

by J.I. Biegeleisen, M.A. Cohn

Barely a century old, silk screen printing or serigraphy has been adopted as a commercial and an artistic process by thousands of enthusiastic professional and amateur crafters throughout the world. In this volume, one of silkscreen's foremost teachers and practitioners explains the entire process from the construction of the frame to the moment of printing your first impression. You are shown how to select or assemble every piece of equipment the frame that holds the silk, the fabric and its attachment to the frame, the base on which the print will rest, stencil knives, guides, the squeegee that forces the paint through the silk, drying racks, and other items.
All five of the most general and useful techniques with respect to stencils are the paper stencil method, the block-out method, the Tusche stencil method, the film stencil method, and the photographic stencil method. Step-by-step instructions detail each technique. Chapters on multi-color silkscreening and color matching and blending make it possible for anyone to produce fine, well-registered prints. In fact, you can use this book as a complete-to-the-last-detail home course for almost every facet of this important modern art form.
A special section covers common difficulties and shows you how to reduce or eliminate them. Ninety-six detailed figures cover every step in the process, and 45 plates illustrate work by such renowned artists as Philip Hicken, Harry Schokler, W. Colescott, Riva Helfond, Anthony Velonis, Amelia Hammer, Ray Euffa, and many others who have exhibited at the National Serigraph Society and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1958

Reviews

[Mind the Book · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sommar. En tid för förkovran.
Kan visualisera mig själv i tidigare nämnda minimala garden flat (känd från Femina) och hur jag säkert framåt november har en fullt utvecklad screentryckverksamhet där på alla tillgängliga ytor. Art for art's sake. "That yearning to surround oneself with the beautiful is an aesthetic escape from the grim realities of everyday life."

Utkommen -58 och fortfarande aktuell. Passar alltså in på bokbingorutan 'En bästsäljare från förr'. Sanna experter inkluderar, utan elitism och high brow-tendenser. Gillar den passionerat tillåtande och självironiska tonen, t.ex. att "anyone with average dexterity" kan hantera verktygen som behövs, t.ex. en squeegee-svampgrej. Och att den som har en tendens att slänga på "heavy daubs of paint will find the paper stencil sympathetic to their technique."

[James · Rating 1 out of 5]

Horribly obsolete, there are new inks, etc. Written in 1942.