Movie showings at Ring Neighborhood Library are the awesomest of them all! With BIG screen viewing, surround sound, and the latest movies HPL has to offer these programs are the Slamma-Damma-Ding-Dong!
Saturday, June 21, 2008
T Shirt Screen Printing
Screenprinting by Danny Russo was a very interesting program for our teens!
"Evidence of the early techniques of printing were found in the 4th Century BC in India. In 300 AD, printing blocks were found in Egyptian burial grounds and Pre-Colombian printed textiles were found in Peru and Mexico. The first form of screen-printing was seen done by the Polynesian Island natives. They would cut designs into banana leaves and forced dye or ink through the leaf openings. In 960 —1280 AD in the Sung Dynasty, Japanese people would hold the pieces of the stencils together by gluing human hair to the stencil. The first item to be made in the United States using the screen printing process was a felt banner in 1910. Andy Warhol began to use screen-printing to duplicate iconography in the late 20th century. He used a picture of Marilyn Monroe from 1967 and put different color in the highlights of her face, gave the background a red-ish color, tinted her hair a blue and mustard color and her earrings were pink. During WWI, screen-printing became a significant part of the industry and high quality signs were made in a short amount of time. An example of this was the "Uncle Sam" posters for recruiting men to the army." http://filebox.vt.edu/users/ahudson/hudson.wbp/html/SPpaper.html
Friday, June 13, 2008
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