Santa Reparata International School of Art Florence, Italy

Summer 2006

Textile Design: Silkscreen
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2622 SR
Dept: Art and Design

Course Description: Silkscreen-textile printing and design is an introduction to the various techniques and processes of silkscreen printing as well as textile design course. Silkscreen techniques cover, paper, and lacquer cut stencils, direct blockout; and an emphasis on photographic emulsion techniques using both hand drawn acetates and photographs with lithfilm or diffusion transfer film and photocopy collage. Instruction is given in procedures and equipment use; darkroom procedures, color theory and ink mixing, registration techniques for printing on fabrics. Assignments are oriented toward textile surface design problems; covering various systems for design repetition. Weekly homework assignments are given on different design themes, all put into repetition and, from these, the designs for actual printing will be selected. A notebook of design resource is kept.