Slowly there is a growing awareness to the advantages of a water based screen print. Customers are also showing a certain amount of understanding regards its limitations, and prefer to be flexible in their requirements …
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Wednesday
Off to school again. Henry is a master of bees and we trail off behind him kitted out in bee-proof suits as he charges his smoke gun with leaves to burn and then checks the …
Tuesday
Walked to Kusikuna school.
Met all the kids and staff in a big welcome circle, then took a tour.
Kusikuna was set up by parents in 1996 in order to provide an alternative to the Bolivian state …
Monday
Nice and easy.
Walk in the morning with Claudia up one of the eucalyptus lined valleys leading from the Cochabamba ‘bowl’ towards the Cordillera mountains. This region is well regarded as one of the most important …
Sunday
We bypass the town centre to avoid today’s revelry, as we are to have a serious meeting in the afternoon, and don’t want to get sucked into the whole chicha thing again.
The morning is spent …
Good Fiesta!
Everybody comes out to line the streets in tiers as various groups (from various regions of Bolivia) parade through. It’s loud and colourful and some of the costumes are amazing. All age groups are …
Ever think of going to Bolivia ?
I don’t suppose many people do, it’s not a prime holiday destination. In fact at the moment , it’s a little dodgy, with civil unrest, road blocks and downright …
Hulions task to bring back genuine Bolivian T shirt printing has been completed. We can observe a five colour print encouraging us to consume Bolivian goods, nice. On returning Hulion has taken up his pre …
Running a busy screen printing business with half the pre press department missing is not the easiest thing in the world. So we were very pleased to hear Julian (now known as Hulion) is safe …
Usually after a busy summer we are able to find time to get organised, and tidy up a little, but this October has been hectic. We have printed many more T shirts than we did …
Obtaining a good red when discharge printing is difficult, bright reds are not easily achieved. We have had good results Screen printing earth positive T shirts with discharge inks, no difficult batches as yet, and …
Reclaiming screens in a busy work shop can become a real problem for screen printers, we have tried many methods and products over the years, most are unpleasant to work with, expensive and time consuming.
Easiway …
More metallic inks are added to the our range, we are currently experimenting with new binders and pastes from Grafco. Such was the response to our new gold ink solutions, we are now taking a …
May has been a very busy month for us, this blog has only seen one post at the beginning of this month, as printing T shirts has been required from waking to sleeping. Our new …
Index separations are very fast to create and very effective with some designs, the T-shirt design below is a good example of the kind of design which works well using this process. We chose to …
