printing on canvas??

[OnlyWantsOne]

I'd like to print some things into canvas, can any one tell me how?

Not picturs, but words and sayings?

screen print?

yes but I dont know how, am complete beginner!!

well you get a frame with silk pulled taut. coat it with a light sensitive emulsion. print your words onto an acetate. put acetate on to of light sensite emulsion and leave to set. then wash off the bits of the emulsion that were not exposed to light. place screen onto of surface to printed. place ink at top of screen pull across screen.

you need equipment and know how

why do you want to do this?

We used to do that at college. We used to coat the screen in special stuff (can't remember what it was called) print design onto paper. Place paper on screen and then put screen inside a machine and then after set amount of time wash it.

The diy way it to use templates which you place over the item you want to print on and pull the ink across the screen. Lift screen, remove templates. That makes it a bit like stencilling.

Maybe this helps? I don't know if you can get freezer paper though...

www.dana-made-it.com/2008/08/tutorial-freezer-paper-stencil-makenna.html

Do you mean stretched canvas frames?? or just canvas?? -

if just canvas - & you don't need the words to be bigger than A4 size - (though you can make bigger prints by reprinting your cloth panel a few times :) )

you can then buy this sort of paper = new.ukdvdr.co.uk/search.php?page=1&search=t-shirt+paper (this supplier is good & cheap :) )

Make your artwork in word - wordart or similar -

then print you design in reverse onto a sheet of this transfer paper - there should be a facility in your printer to do this, might come under - mirror image - or flip image-

cut out around your design & follow instructions on the transfer paper packaging to iron your design onto your canvas

you can probably use these on stretched canvas too, but will be a bit trickier :)