/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>434432
The dyes I've used usually need to be at least 80% natural fabric (so no acryl or other stuff) and the dye paste that mix the pigment with itself is some sorta natural stuff so I need to keep it in fridge so that it won't grow mold. It doesn't really spoil in the fridge at all, I've had the paste I have no for probably 6 months and it's still good as new

>>433875
I was waiting for someone to recognize it.
You deserve a sticker for that.

>>433818
Also I guess I should say few words about not using screen.
If you are using screen, the list is fine, if you are not, you're just gonna have to tape (use that good ol' 2-sided tape!) the stencil to your cloth and use piece of old mattress or similar 'spongy' material to tap the paint through the stencil. Basically you take the 'sponge' you're using, dip it in the paint and and tap the paint to the cloth.
If you can use screen, you should. While the tapping method works, you can't get the paint to spread as evenly as you can with screen and it will most likely 'leak' to parts of the fabric you don't want the paint to be. With the screen you can print stuff with lot finer detail and especially if you're printing bunch of t-shirts at once, it's godsend because of the speed and convenience.
Any other feedback/stuff I should add?

>>433781
That's actually pretty good idea. I kinda did this whole thing while I have bit of fever so please mind the inconsistencies. What you need for every part also kinda depends on what you have, like if you don't have the screen, you will have to do the actual printing with another technique. But as far as stuff I use, I can do that.
From the start, things you need:
Stencil
2-sided paint
Surgeons knife (or some sort of sharp cutting device you're comfortable with)
Scissors
Cutting board or something you are going to cut the stencil on
One of those see through paper things (someone with better knowledge please tell me what these are called)
T-shirt or whatever you're going to print on
Plastic bag
Printing screen (not required necessarily)
Tape to attach stencil to the screen
Paints/dyes
Something to mix and hold the paints in
Spoons/Spatulas to apply the paint
The paint spatula (only needed if using screen)
Hairdryer
Brushes
Clothes Iron
That tailor paper thing (again if someone could tell me the real name for this stuff I'd be happy)

21/21
..and there we go!
Finished product! Not that hard and in the end kinda fun. Coming up with ideas what to print and cutting the stencils are the worst parts so if possible, make other people do that for you.
Hopefully someone will find this guide even bit helpful.
I'll probably lurk around this thread so if any questions rise, feel free to ask them and I'll do my best to answer them.

20/21
You want your iron to be as hot as possible and use NO STEAM. This is important, you don't want those paints to accidently spread or anything.
Slowly iron over the print around 10-30 seconds at a time to make it sure nothing burns. You want to iron that overall for good 6-10 minutes.
Note that if you managed to spill paint to other parts to the cloth, no worries! Just don't iron those parts and wash it after the ironing, this should remove any paint that wasn't properly ironed.
Wait for it...

19/21
Time to iron that cocksucker.
This might not be needed, again depending on the dyes you're using, but so far every type I've used has called for it.
Note the paper there. It's the kinda stuff tailors use to draw and cut the parts of the clothes. I don't know what it's called in English since I'm not native speaker. The point is, get some of that stuff, that way you won't ruin your iron with the paint that might burn to it.

18/21
Admire your printing skills for a while and pat yourself on the back, you deserve it.
We're almost done here!

17/21
Go wash your equipment.
Yeah, you need to do that too at some point and when the bridge parts are drying, you might as well do it.

16/21
Kinda skipped printing the other stencils there, but that was more or less the same,
After done with the printing, use brush to paint those bridges.
Sorry bout the picture quality at this point, I only got my cell to take pictures with.

15/21
Protip: Use hairdryer to dry the paint. You can just leave it to dry too but using hairdryer is so much faster. I'm gonna apply 2 more stencils to this one so I need to dry this before I print the next one. Also at this point you want to wash your screen if you're gonna print more with different colours.

14/21
Remove the screen carefully to not spread any excess paint around.
And damn, looking decent.

12/21
Spread some of the mixed paint to your screen. I use the spatula in the picture to spread the paint. You just kinda firmly push it against the screen and drag it from up to down few times over the stencil.

13/21
Here we have picture after I have spread the paint.

10/21
Whip out your dyes at this point.
From left to right:
My paste, blue pigment, black pigment and yellow pigment.
For me, I need to take some of the paste and mix it with tiny drop of the pigments to get the paint I want. Do whatever necessary preparations you need to do with your paints at this point.

11/21
Mix that pigment with that paste.
Nothing else much to it.

9/21
Now to attach the stencil to the screen.
The scree, of course is not necessary, but if you an use one, do it. It makes the printing process easier and faster and it's just all around handy if you print a lot.
I got mine from my mom. Thanks mom!

8/21
Now that you have your stencils ready take a t-shirt, hoodie or in this case my shopping bag.
Put a plastic bag in there, we don't want the paint to go through the fabric to the other side.
Also make sure the cloth you're printing on is the right kind of material for the dyes you use.

7/21
And here we have our stencil!
Those white things are bits of tape I couldn't remove. As you can see I had some text there too, so I'm gonna make 3 stencils in this case.
I have no pictures of those, since it's pretty much just the same.

6/21
All cut now!
Remove the transparent paper from the stencil, but be careful not to tear your freshly made stencil! It has happened to me and it could happen to you and it feels bad.

5/21
Let's get cutting then.
I guess few notes about stencils: You can see that I didn't really draw bridges to mine, but if you're new to this stuff, I'd recommend always drawing them beforehand. Cutting the stencils is the least fun part about printing and if you fuck up, you need to do it twice.

4/21
Tape the stencil to your screen.
Lookin' pretty good so far.
Also note that I like to use that kinda sturdy cutting board as, well, my cutting board and I even throw newspaper there so any bumps the cutting board might have won't affect my cutting.

3/21
Apply tape to your stencil. Taping your stencil to the screen makes it shitton easier to cut and you can do more detailed stuff so I really recommend it.

2/21
Then we need to cut that bastard so we can use it in this printing business.
I like to use the kinda surgeons knife pictured here, because you can hold it like pen and it just feels natural. Boxcutter works fine too. Hell you can probably do this with scissors.
Also pictured: 2 sided tape and one of those screens used in overhead projectors.