Screenprint Your Own Bag

Learn to make beautiful, unique images and designs by creating your own very finely detailed & cut stencils using waterproof paper.

You will then screenprint your designs onto fabric, creating beautiful repeat patterns. You will learn how to use combining & overprinting with vibrant metallic foils.

By the end of the day you will have finished printing an entire pre-cut fabric bag, full instructions & demonstration will be given on constructing the bag.

Course Structure 

Saturday Morning

Introduction screen printing onto fabric, screens, LWP waterproof stencil paper

Demo: Taping screens, designing stencils, techniques of using craft knifes, different ways to fold the stencil paper to create mirror images/ repeat imagery

Demo: Attaching stencils onto screens / printing onto fabrics / printing techniques

Demo: Printing onto fabric, cleaning screens and cleaning stencils to reuse.

Printing Fabrics

Saturday Afternoon

Demo: foiling

Printing fabrics

Demo: construction of assembling handbag with samples of each stage of process

Clear up and evaluation

Collect information sheet to make handbag at home

About the Tutor

Sally Moret is an established and experienced self-employed freelance designer. ‘I use my commercial experience in the footwear, fashion and accessories industry to produce unique new and vibrant styles of work.’

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Fashion and Textiles 2:1 Leicester Polytechnic

PGCE Design Technology DeMontfort University

Career To-date

Sally has 33 years’ experience in the fashion & textile industry. For the first 17 years she worked full-time in the shoe industry including 10 years at The Pentland Group based in London. Sally is now a freelancing designer working on print & pattern, screen printing, lino printing, graphic design & shoe design. Using computer skills, Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, iPad Pro and drawing skills to create work.

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