Description
McKnight & McKnight Publishing Company, Published 1957. Wraps, 91 pp.; 26 cm; Second Edition (first published 1952); illustrated throughout with black-and-white line drawings and photographs.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition. Cream and mint green paper covers with leather-grain texture, black and green lettering on front; moderate soiling, aging, scuffing and staining, small blue spot to lower front cover, red specks to rear cover. Staple bound, binding tight. Foxing to interior pages, heavier toward margins; otherwise unmarked. Step-by-step manual of silk screen printing for the home craftsman, student and small shop, revised for this edition by Francis J. Kafka of the John Peter Tetard Junior High School, New York. Covers building frames, squeegees and drying racks from ordinary materials, color mixing, and each stencil method in turn: paper stencil, tusche and glue, reverse color, lacquer film, and the indirect and direct photographic methods. Includes lettering alphabets, multicolor registration, and a chapter on the commercial silk screen industry with photographs of automatic presses and drying machines, plus sources of supply, project ideas and a bibliography. Contents: Introduction to the Revised Edition; A First Experiment; Silk Screen Printing; Making Your Own Equipment; Additional Equipment; Colors and Color Mixing; The Paper Stencil Method; The Tusche and Glue Method; Reverse Color Printing; Lacquer Film Method; Indirect Photographic Method; Direct Photographic Method; Art Work and Lettering; Multicolor Screening; Care and Cleaning of Equipment; The Silk Screen Industry; Sources of Supply; Projects; Bibliography; Index.