In other #screenPrint news, today I tried the drawing fluid + screen filler from the kit I've bought, and made this

yeah, it worked, I'm not sure I'll use this technique a lot, since I'm not painting things free hand, anyway, so I can just use the UV sensitive thing anyway.

However, to make things a bit more interesting, I tried to print using two colours in a gradient:

The strips of paper will be glued to a cardboard box where I'm keeping my screen printing supplies (that's why I did them in the first place, beside the experimenting bits)

it worked!

My third attempt to #screenPrint a qr-code was a success! (nothing like correctly inverting the image to allow a phone to recognise the code :D )

I'm going to keep this screen, because I expect to use it multiple times in the future, to print it on garments and accessories, and/or to make small patches to sew on them, as applicable.

I've also found a good way to keep the screen stable when exposing it to the free UV lamp in the sky :D

TIL: vlc <torrent url>

not that I'm surprised, since vlc <anything that points somehow to a bit of video> tends to work :D

I like it how in Italian there is no right and wrong side to fabric, but a front and a back. And sometimes the back is the right side for your project.

#sewing

#ThisIsReallyJustAboutSewing #NotAMetaphore

A few updates on #screenPrint progress.

I've tried making a screen with the photoemulsion: even printing the design on tracing paper instead of transparent and using the sun for exposure (instead of a lamp) it worked nicely and printed sharp and precise.

except, I missed the fact that inkscape had not actually inverted all of the design, and thus the QRcode I tried to print was unreadable :(

At least, I know what went wrong and I can fix it on the next attempt.

I've also found that the kit I've bought doesn't have enough screen cleaning fluid for the number of screens I can do with the available photoemulsion, so I'm waiting a bit until I can get some screens I don't have to reuse (for a few designs that I plan to print multiple times) and more screen cleaning fluid.

The way hollywood depicts pre-modern battles follows a perfectly legitimate literary tradition, already seen in the Iliad, of showing two armies getting ready for battle, not having a frigging clue on how war worked centuries earlier and going on with depicting duels between named (and in the case of hollywood unhelmeted) heroes strictly based on the Rules of Cool.

On the other hand, as far as we know Homer didn't have wikipedia.

TIL: The Mondeluz #watercolours from Koh-I-Noor seem to be the same watercolours as the White Night from St. Petersburg ones.

At least, the one random pan I bought (raw umber) has the same number and pigments as the corresponding White Night, it is made “in cooperation with” the producer of the White Night and it has their logo at the bottom of the pan.

I've never tried the White Night ones for a comparison, however.

And it is a full pan, something I couldn't find on the web site before buying.

Uops, I forgot to post a picture of the @Gruppo Linux Como lake penguin

#screenPrint

no, it's not perfect, and I should practice a bit more, but the LUG t-shirts are close to becoming a *thing*.

Today I drove my mother and a neighbor to a fabric shop.

And I bought the bit of cotton canvas suitable to make a couple of bags / backpacks to be screenprinted, exactly as I had planned to do.

And I absolutely have not bought a full dress and a couple of waists. Not even if the goods were really good quality at an exceedingly affordable price.

I did resist buying broadcloth for the skirt that will go with those waists, because black broadcloth is something I'm always going to find, and first I need to make the whole set of underthings for it.

TIL: a collection of icons for #games, under the CC-BY license

(found on ludism.org/ppwiki/SteampunkPie… , which. which. I. need. that.)

Hidden in their mountains, the Swiss have power plants that run on Balrog's fire.

Prove me wrong.

Too Italian; Didn't Read: offer of a postcard with COMMIE stamp to Italian addresses

L'altro giorno son stata dal tabaccaio a prendere qualche francobollo, e mi han dato quelli commemorativi del congresso di Livorno del 1921.

Ora, visto che è febbraio¹, qualcuno del fediverso italiano² è interessato a ricevere una cartolina scritta a mano con un francobollo COMUNISCHTA?

Offerta limitata al numero di francobolli che ho preso meno il numero di lettere che già devo spedire in Italia :D

¹ #InCoWriMo
² secondo la definizione di Italia delle poste, ovvero con indirizzo di consegna in Italia, San Marino e Vaticano³.
³ e se qualcuno ha l'indirizzo di consegna in Vaticano, bonus point per il LOL.

TFW you write something with visudo so that you know that it will work, then you copy it in ansible, run the ansible playbook, and it breaks.

And then you open the file that ansible has written with visudo, save it with no changes, and it works.

And you spend hours trying to understand what happened.

And then it was a missing newline at the end of the file.

Experimental #screenPrint, day I've lost count :D

Art print on quality paper in a suitable mediu… no, really, more like in-joke from an IRC channel, printed on red MÅLA paper in negative with a grainy white area of paint all around it.

Anybody wants the original? only one copy, it's going to sell for a lot of money when I'll become famous :D

Today's #screenPrint results were… let's just say it's important to talk about them to prevent publication bias :D

I've spent yesterday evening painstakingly painting a QR-code on curtain fabric with PVA glye (and a bit of acrylic paint added to know what I was doing).

and then today I tried to use it, but it's definitely not clear enough to work

with the white bit way too grainy for any phone / computer to recognize the pattern.

On the plus side, the paint I'm using (marabu textil print) washes easily (with some rubbing) when it's still fresh, so I haven't wasted the scrap of fabric I was using. It may be a sign that it's not going to be as resistant to future washing (after heat setting) as other fabric paint I've used, which is less good, but while doing random experiments it's fine.

Also, while washing the screen the glue went away, which it didn't on the homesewing screen: I'm not sure whether it's the acrylic paint, the fact that it was relatively fresher (less than 24 hours) or the fact that when I washed it I scrubbed it as if I didn't care whether the glue survived or not, while I was more careful with the homesewing screen.

Tonight I dreamt I was in the town centre with a friend; in a shop we saw an expensive bracelet made of a strip of fake leather with a button and an ugly print, and she asked me if I could #screenPrint something else over it. Of course I could.

And by that, what she actually meant was to make a similar bracelet in snappap (latex paper), with a screen printed design for a fraction of the cost.

And then I woke up. and I may accidentally found a leftover strip of snappap that is just the right width for a bracelet.

Dear lazyweb,

is it me not being able to do an internet search, or is there no logo for #RightToRepair?

#screenPrint! All! The! Things!, weekend 2

The attempt at a two-colours print, using a stencil cut in plastic rather than paper (to make it reusable) will have to wait until tomorrow, when I'll do the second colour.

Today there was also another thing, however:

This is a screen made with old curtain fabric painted with white (PVA) glue and a round embroidery hook, and…

it worked!

It isn't the neatest print, it's grainy and there are a few spots outside of the image where the glue didn't fill all of the fabric holes, so I'm not going to stop using the real screen any time soon, but it is A Look, and it's a look that I like, for some specific things.

And this “home sewing is killing fashion” graphic with a sewing machine with teeth and crossed bones that I've found ages ago on the internet(TM) is exactly the kind of things for which this look is fitting. I had to cut the rest of the text, however (it was “and it's -il-legal”, with the il crossed) because it was too small for the resolution of the screen.