Heraclitus of Ephesus (c.500 BCE – c.400 BCE) was born in Ephesus, Ionia, Persian Empire, which is now lçuk, İzmir, Turkey as the eldest son of a wealthy family. He became an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher. His placement in Whos Who in Screenprinting is due to Heraclitus’ concept of Panta Rhei, ‘everything flows,’ which led […]
Xico Flores is a specialist in textile printing with more than 20 years of experience. Flores is the founder of Estampadia, a high-end textile printing service in Mexico City, Mexico. Even though he has a Bachelor of Business Administration, he quickly found that competing on price brought his business to the brink of bankruptcy, so […]
David Ream was one of the early innovators of the screenprinting process as we know it today. Screenprinting did not exist until frames with wire mesh attached were first used, albeit with the ink transferred by brush or a roller (see Patent 106874, H.W. Rudolf, 1870) through the open areas of the stencil. It was […]
Benjamin Walker was one of the early innovators of the screenprinting process as we know it today. Screenprinting did not exist until frames with wire mesh attached were first used, albeit with the ink transferred by brush or a roller (see Patent 106874, H.W. Rudolf, 1870) through the open areas of the stencil. It was […]
Screenprinting has existed since 1870 when Henry W. Rudolf first patented the process in the United States (Patent 106874) with a frame with mesh attached. Although he used a brush to transfer the ink through the mesh and onto the substrate. Before that, there was stenciling and pochoir. The squeegee and photo-reactive stencils would not […]