The Nashville ISS show is this week, I hope to see some of you there. Last year I had the distinct pleasure of visiting with Andy Anderson and seeing his shop in Nashville. He is a real renaissance man, with three distinct areas of expertise: motorcycle design and painting, underwater photography, and then to top…
Today’s post comes via Andy MacDougall, screen printer extraordinaire and all around good guy (and fun guy.) You can check out some of what he does at squeegeeville.com. I titled this a shop tour, but we are talking the reverse, this is about a shop that comes to you. In 2008, printmakers Delilah Knuckley and…
This Mis-Print Monday comes from our buddy Joe Matarazzo of Good Fellas Merch. The shocking video almost say’s it all but here’s the story from Joe himself: A can of screen opener fell onto the dryer belt, then rolled into the heat chamber and must have slipped off the belt and lodged itself somewhere inside of the…
This is a big deal… Ennis, Inc. Announces Acceptance of $110 Million Superior Offer for its Apparel Division. Read the whole story here
A few thoughts on Squeegees: Without good squeegee blades you cannot print well. They are absolutely essential. Don’t let them soak in anything, clean them you lazy… If you soak them they swell up and are not the same durometer any longer. Change them often. We turn them around then chuck them. I now believe…
As a followup to my recent post showing several pallets worth of accumulated mis-prints, I’d like to share a few points/answer a few questions: First off, why do we save our mis-prints in the first place? Don’t we just turn them into test print material? This has been addressed in a previous post titled “Spoilage Management” Secondly, and…
Today we have a guest post from our buddy Brett Bowden of Printed Threads. On the topic of discharge printing Brett shares a very useful trick with us: A while back Rick wrote a post about using nail polish to block out registration marks on screens being used for water based inks. What a good…
We’re doing a little spring cleaning at Motion Textile. The following photos represent several years of accumulated mis-prints. Ugly…
Jim Seery is a drummer in the bands the Coffin Lids and Triple Thick as well as the chef at the Plough and Stars in Cambridge, MA. I’m not sure whether he is athletic, but I’m sure he’s got a good shirt. Like most good shirts, it is simple and to the point. The word…
