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bucket as much soft hand base into it as you like, replaces it at temperature with whatever pigment reading see ‘Discharge Ink – Taming the Beast’ by
but it’ll still feel rougher than a Fisherman’s fist. you’ve added to your magic potion. Bright (ish) a Dr A. Hackett (Penguin Classics).
So we need, and love equally that which is colours onto dark shirts then, and again once I’m running out of word allocation, but has my
water based ink – sounds great doesn’t it, clean your Mum’s given it a good wash, you won’t feel manhood been restored – I might be a spanner
and pure, probably invented by a with a spanner, but do I have a clue about
Nun - but I wouldn’t advise you use something? Half a clue perhaps, but I
it as a mouth wash. That said, put it
“
Let’s start with plastisol, not
wanted to talk about heat pressed gloss
through a tight mesh screen, with papers, big foil prints for gangster rappers,
nice open designs that don’t have
always politically correct, but the
and why you’d want to look really
too much coverage, and then follow conspicuous while doing a drive by
it up with a good wash, and you’re printer’s Monday morning anyway. We haven’t looked at caviar
ready for the water based
favourite. If you’ve had eight pints
beads and how they get all over the print
challenge. Put five T-shirts on a shop floor causing a re-enactment of
table, one printed the others not.
and an Alsatian Tikka Masala the
‘Printing on Ice’ featuring a twenty stone
Get a member of the audience on printer and a mug of coffee. And what
stage, blindfold them, strip them night before, you’re in no rush about sprinklable glitters, and that time
naked (optional) and ask them to
run their hand over the T-s and see
with this stuff.
which one is printed – if you’ve
done the job right they won’t have
”
we mixed a glitter flake with the caviar
beads in a big ‘S’ design for the Gay
Superman Contest at Waikiki
Beach…….I’d love to go on, but
a clue – ha! a bloody thing. remember when you were a kid, and those TV
Ideal for dark colours onto light backgrounds, Downsides? When you’re printing it you can’t shows that ended, ‘And that reminds me of the
but if your shirts are going over to the dark side see anything, it’s at temperature in the dyer’s time Hammy Hamster got into his speedboat,
Luke, you’ll be needing the beautifully named tunnel that the design mysteriously appears – so took a paw full of pills and headed towards the
discharge – while I’m here, can we change this if there are any mistakes you may have mullered waterfall, and, oh…but that’s another story’
name please to something that doesn’t sound a dozen shirts before you know about it. This, and
like a weeping pustule? Suggestions on a post its tendency to attack your stencil, clog up the Cheers,
card to Paul Stephenson at the usual Blue Peter screen, change colour half way through a run and
address. Great stuff though, acts like a bleach, generally misbehave puts many printers off – but Paul
removes the reactive dye in the garment and I urge them not to lose the faith. For further
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