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Quarter 3 – Module 1:
CONCEPT AND PRINCIPLES OF
SILKSCREEN PRINTING

Name of Learner:
Grade & Section:
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What I Need To Know

Hello learner! Welcome to the exciting world of Arts for the third quarter, Module 2,
Steps/Procedure in silk screening printing.

In this module, you are expected to:

Apply concepts on design principles, steps/procedure in silkscreen printing. (A6PP-IIIc)
Create own prints from original design to silkscreen printing to convey a message
or statement. (A6PP-IIId)

What I Know
Directions: Read and understand each question carefully. Select the letter of the
correct answer. Write your answer on your answer sheet.

1. Which of these techniques involve stencils?

a. Planography
b. Screen printing
c. Intaglio
2. What technique uses a screen and a squeeze to pull the ink through the open spaces to
print?
a. Lithography
b. Screen printing
c. Relief
d. Intaglio
3. What is the matrix of screen printing?
a. Silkscreen
b. Wool fabric
c. Wood
d. Plastic stencils
4. When printing an image with multiple colors, what must be done?
a. Spray painting the areas you want certain colors to be.
b. Making one screen and painting the screen with all the colors at the same time
c. The making of a different screen for every different color using the same stencils
with different color.
d. Using the same stencil but with different color each time you use it.
5. Silkscreen printing is mostly commonly known for printing what?
a. Brochures

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 b. Newspaper
c. T-shirt
d. Letter head

What’s New

What is screen/silk printing and its principles?

Silk screen printing is one of the most popular printing techniques, and is the most
used by companies; letter printing designs onto products of different sizes and
materials.it is mainly used printing images and designs on t-shirts, tote bag, paper and
wood, ceramics and other materials. There are different types of silk screen printing
depending on their own and the printing process used among them we can find
serigraphy for the graphic design sector serigraphy, for the art sector and textile printing
which is what interest us most.
In spite of its craftsmanship in recent years, silk screen printing has
become more modern and there is now ink and machinery available that enables us to
obtain result of super fine quality, for this reason nowadays there are more companies
that decided to opt for silkscreen printing when creating t-shirts and other items.
Screen printing consists of five elements, namely screen printing plate, scraper,
ink, printing station and substrate. Screen printing is the basic principle: the use of
screen printing plate graphic part of the network through the ink, non-graphic part of the
mesh impermeable ink for printing. Contrast and harmony is important in print making,
Contrast creates space and difference between elements in your design Your background
needs to be significantly different from the color of your elements so they work
harmoniously together and are readable. Harmony in art overall is achieved when
elements of an artwork come together in a unified way, it is definitely not monotony, and
it is that perfect pairing of the two.

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What are the benefits of silk screen printing?

Excellent quality-price ratio for large print runs

Perfect color reproduction
Durability of personalized items
Print-outs that is resistant to many washing procedure.

Silk screen printing is recommended for design of up to four spot color,

for example logo, pharoses and simple graphic design for shot runs and
more complex printouts such as photographs or design with gradations digital
printing is recommended.

What’s More
What is Stencil?
Means of making prints by creating a raised design on a flat surface.
The design in inked or covered with color and stamped on paper or
another surfaces

What is Stenciling?
In the visual arts, a technique for reproduction designs by passing ink or paint
over holes cut in cardboard or metal onto the surface to be decorated.

Materials needed for silkscreen printing

Blank silkscreen pre-stretched 110 mesh frame

Transparency paper for laser jet printing
Photo emulsion
150 watt light bulb
Squeegee

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 Ink
Blank canvass bags/shirts/posters, mouse -pads
Rags

STEPS OF SILK SCREEN

1. The design is created- the printer takes the design they want to create on their
finished product, and prints it out onto a transparent acetate film, will be used to
create the stencil.

2. The screen is prepared- the printer will choose a mesh screen to suit the -
complexity of the design and the texture of the fabric being printed; The
mesh screen is then coated with a layer of light-creative emulsion, which will
harden when developed under bright light.

3. The emulsion is exposed-acetate featuring the design is then laid onto the
emulsion-coated screen, and the whole thing is exposed to a very bright light. The
light hardens the emulsions, so the parts of the screen which are covered by the
design remain in liquid form, if the final design is going to include more than one
color; then a separate screen must be used to apply each layer of ink. To create
multi-colored products the printer must use this skill to design each stencil,
and line them up perfectly to ensure the final design is seamless.

4. The emulsion is washed off, creating the stencil-after the screen has been
exposed for a set time, any unhardened emulsion is then carefully rinsed
away this leaves a clear imprint of the design on the screen for the link to pass
through, the screen is then dried, and here printer will make necessary touch-ups
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 or corrections to make the imprint as accurate as possible to the original. The
stencil is now ready to be used.

5. The item is prepared for print- the screen is then placed on the printing press.
The item or garment being printed is laid down flat onto the printing board,
underneath the screen.

6. The ink is pressed through the screen onto use item- the screen is lowered
down onto the printing board ink is added to the top and of the screen, and a
squeegee is used to pull the ink along the full length of the screen, this
presses the ink through the open areas of the stencil, imprinting the design on the
product underneath if the printer is creating multiple item then the screen a raised
and anew garment is placed onto the printing board the process is repeated, once
all the items have been printed and the stencil has served its purpose, the
emulsion is removed using a special washing fluid so the mesh can be reversed to
create new stencils.

7. The product is dried, checked and finished-the printed product passed through
a dryer, who cures the ink and creates a smooth, colorfast finish the final product
will be checked and washed thoroughly to remove any residue, before being
passed on the new owner.

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Activity 1

Directions:Name the different steps in making the silk screen printing using the
graphic organizer below. Do it on your answer sheet.

Steps in silk screen painting

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

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Activity 2

Directions:Look at the caterpillar below. Enumerate the different materials used for
silkscreen printing. Do it on your answer sheet.

Materials
1. 2. 3. 4. 6. 7. 8.
5.

What I Have Learned

Let us summarize the important points you have learned from this module. Answer
the following questions in a paragraph form. Write your answer on your answer sheet.

1. What are the benefits of silk screen printing? Explain briefly.

2.What are the steps on making silk screen printing? Enumerate.

What I Can Do
Directions: Create your own silkscreen printing following the different steps.

Rubrics:
Criteria Points
1. Student applies design, principles with great skills. Stencil is done
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with great care and skills
2. Student applies design, principles with fair skills. Stencil id done
4
with care and skill
3. Student tries to apply design, principles out of the over-all result,
3
did not completely followed the procedures.
4. Student does not appear to be able to apply most design principles
2
their work

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 Assessment

Directions:Read and understand each question carefully.Select the letter of the

correct answer. Write your answer on your answer sheet.
1. Screen printing is most commonly known for printing what?
a. Brochures
b. Newspaper
c. Wood
d. Plastic stencils
2. Another name for serigraphy?
a. Offset
b. Flexo
c. Screen printing
d. Silkscreen
3. What is the matrix of screen printing?
a. Silk screen
b. Wool fabric
c. Wood
d. Plastic stencils
4. What is silk screen printing best suited for?
a. Mass production of prints on paper
b. Production of images with areas of uniform color.
c. Inexpensive production of prints
d. Efficient silk printing
5. What techniques use a screen and a squeegee to pull the ink through the open spaces
to print?
a. Lithography
b. Relief
c. Screen printing
d. Intaglio
6. Which of these techniques involves stencils?
a. Planography
b. Screen printing
c. Intaglio
d. Relief
7. When printing an image with multiple colors, what must be done?
a. Spray painting the areas you want certain colors to be.
b. Making one screen and painting the screen with all the colors at the same.
c. The making of different screen for every different color.
d. Using the same stencils but with a different color each time you use it.
8. What is a stencil?
a. A means of making prints by creating raised design on a flat surface. The design
is inked or covered with color and stamp on paper or another surface.
b. Something used for tracing objects, shapes, or forms.

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 c. A printing process by which areas are blocked out to keep ink from non-hypen
image.
d. Using printing with different colors
9. What will remain blank in screen printing?
a. The acid-resistant” ground”
b. The uncut portion of the stencil
c. The cut portion of the stencil
d. One-half portion of the uncut stencil
10. What is not possible in silk screen?
a. Using the color blue
b. Shading
c. Adding 6+ layers
d. Using the color red

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2. D Answer Key
3. A
4. C
5. B
6. C
7. C
8. C
9. B
10. B

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 Region IX: Zamboanga Peninsula Hymn – Our Eden Land

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The Footprints Prayer Trees by Joyce Kilmer

One night I had a dream. I dreamed that I I think that I shall never see
was walking along the beach with the A poem lovely as a tree.
LORD.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
In the beach, there were two (2) sets of Against the earth’s sweet flowing
footprints – one belong to me and the breast;
other to the LORD.
A tree that looks at God all day,
Then, later, after a long walk, I noticed
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
only one set of footprints.

“And I ask the LORD. Why? Why? A tree that may in Summer wear
Why did you leave me when I am sad A nest of robins in her hair;
and helpless?”
Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who
And the LORD replied “My son, My intimately lives with rain.
son, I have never left you. There was
only one (1) set of footprints in the Poems are made by fools like me, But
sand, because it was then that I only God can make a tree
CARRIED YOU!
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