Hand screen printing is a common technique that has been carried out for years in the textile pockets of the country. It is essentially a stencil process. An open mesh fabric is used to hold in place the ‘islands’ of the stencil design through which inks are forced using a flexible blade of rubber or polyurethane called a squeegee.
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