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| What is Serigraph? Serigraph is also known as screen printing or frame printing. A printing method originating in China where two stencils are cut and glued together with hair. Silk fabric has also been used, and today synthetic fabric (gauze or a type of artificial silk) is used. Screen-printed frames consist of wooden, aluminum or steel frames, over which a finely woven cloth is stretched - almost like a canvas. The cloth is covered with a dense coating, with the exception of the places where the color must penetrate. The pattern is usually transferred photographically to the print frame. This is done by covering the silk with a light-sensitive emulsion, which is then irradiated through film. After exposure, the theme is developed where the film is transparent, the emulsion has been exposed and thus hardened (negative emulsion). The unexposed areas of the emulsion (the film is black) remain uncured and can be washed off. This ensures that the color can penetrate unlit areas, but not lit areas. In another technique, a special type of two-layer cut film is used, where the sample is cut by hand and the film is attached to the silk with a solvent - or an adhesive film is used. In addition, the frame can be covered with temporary patterns in the form of paper, plastic etc. The printing itself takes place by putting ink on the frame and pressing the motif through the silk, onto the object to be printed, with a rubber brush - a wooden strip with a rubber edge that is pulled back and forth over the silk under pressure. Silkscreen printing has the advantage of being able to print on any stand and large format with high durability. That is why it is used for road signs, textiles and billboards. It is also used industrially for curved surfaces such as glass bottles, shampoo containers, etc. Silk screen printing came to Denmark in 1927, when master painter Georg Nielsen returned from London, where he attended a course at Selactine Silk Screen Printing Process Ltd., a supplier of screen printing equipment. In the 1930s, a group of artists coined the word "serigraphy", as opposed to the terms frame printing or screen printing, to distinguish artistic use from industrial use. Andy Warhol, who most people are familiar with, made screen printing a recognized art technique. Some of Warhol's prints include his famous work Marilyn Diptych from 1962, which is a portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe printed in bright colors. |