le blogue

“It’s been an extremely stacked end year here at the FALSE H.Q, the likes of which we’ve never seen before, running at our outmost complete maximum capacity, things have never been busier, we see things getting back to slight normality in the new year! Here’s just a little something I was hoping to put out over the past 2 months found a good 30 mins in the schedule today to churn this one out! Do enjoy and a massive Happy Holidaze to all our loyal passionate supporters! We bloody xxx ♥ all of ya! Here’s to a massive 2012!”

—

Silk Screen printing is perhaps the oldest and most practical printing technique dating back to ancient times. Screen printing first appeared in a recognizable form during the Song Dynasty in China (960–1279 AD). They used human hair stretched across a wooden frame to form the screen. To that they attached a stencil made from leaves stuck together into different shapes. This was probably the first application of screen printing ever.

The method was later improved in Japan into a printmaking technique that created sharp-edged images using a stencil and a porous fabric, known as screen printing, or serigraphy. The Japanese used simple stencils which were glued onto a screen made of human hair that was stretched over a wooden frame.

The screen printing process that we all are familiar with today emerged in the early 1900s when a man from Manchester, England, Samuel Simon, received a patent for using a silk screen fabric as a printing screen. Simon patented this process of printing through a silk screen, which guaranteed a higher tensile strength and better size stability. Simon’s process also used rubber blades, or squeegees, to push the ink through the screen which is still used today. The invention was coined the term Silk Screen Printing.

Many years later close to the First World War, John Pilsworth of San Francisco developed the Selectasine method, which basically introduced the concept of multi-color printing using the same screen. Different areas on the screen were blocked out for different color inks, thus resulting in a multi-colored image. This technique became hugely popular for printing signs and posters in large quantities. From using hair to silk to polymer meshes, screen printing has come a long way today. The basic technique remains the same but with innovation and the introduction of electronics and computers, screen printing is no longer recognizable as the technique Simon patented.

—

At FALSE Brand & Subsidiaries (Better Off Dead, Fallacy Of Rome etc) screen printing is our main craft, working each piece into an individual wearable walking canvas we take pride in how our pieces come across amidst the mass produced array of brands out there. We stay close to the original nature of screen printing sticking to 1 color, handmade wooden screens and squeegees hand-pulled and pressed over garments one at a time. Being an Asian Heritage art craft we take great pride in continuing the craft of Silk Screening through the generations. Bridging ancient craft and modern art pieces of message and movement, we choose to build items of a historical nature, passion induced with substance over senseless consumerism. -Le Messie, Amanda S. x FALSE / Anti-Anti Team