Screen-printing tricks

There are several different ways to get your designs on to a T-shirt. One of the simplest is to use an inkjet printer and a special transfer process, but there's something a bit sexier about a screen-printed shirt. Because of the expense of producing the screens, it's not economically viable to use screen-printing to make one-off T-shirts, unless your granny died leaving you a fortune or you have more money than sense.

So for the rest of us, here's a cheap, simple method of producing single T-shirts (or even a small run) with nothing more than a plain T-shirt, PVA glue, brushes, fine curtain netting or an old pair of tights, fabric paint, scissors and an embroidery hoop.

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