3 CRAFT QUESTIONS IN ONE. please answer.?
sorry about shouting i really need answers…
1) where do i find hama beads in the US? ive looked on the toys R’ us website because someone told me that they were there but the US branch doesn’t have them.
2) does Jo Ann’s fabric store sell denim? not the kind for pillowcases and stuff but apparel- grade.
3)where do i buy a screen printer for clothing? would michaels or a.c moore have it or do i have to order from an online company?
thanxx in advance
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#1 go on line, their are many bead websites. stop in michael’s and look in the back or through the book. you’ll fine many listings. #2 I would think joann’s would carry denim. maybe WAL-MART. #3 check with sam’s club or office/supply house, or go on line, http://www.hewett packer.com and enter screen printer when the page comes up. good luck.
joann fabrics should sell denim as far as screen printers they should sell it too hama beads should be sold there too
I think “Hama” beads are called Perler beads here, and those can be found at craft stores, and sometimes in kits at kids’ stores.
Joanns should definitely carry demin fabric for making clothing… probably various types and colors.
When you say a “screen printer,” I assume you want an already-built “large” screen printing (older name was silk screening) unit which is hinged over a screen printing bed and made from wood, or you want just a small screen printing fabric that’s been pre-framed.
You can buy all of those (at art supply stores or some craft stores or online), or you can purchase the “fabric” then make the stand-alone or large-unit frame yourself (large or small).
A very fine mesh fabric is needed which can be purchased from screen printing supply places**, or some kinds of polyester mesh “fabric” can usually be purchased from a fabric store too (fine polyester mesh usually, like the kind for making “sheers” sometimes used with drapes). Jean Ray Laury even has a way in her “Imagery on Fabric” book, I think, of making screens inside a mat board frame (those are usually for only one pattern), as opposed to a wood frame.
(There was also a small expensive unit called a Print Gocco which “burned” screen printing fabric to create a stencil of the chosen pattern using special light bulbs, but not being manufactured now, I think.)
**fine mesh monofilament nylon (280 threads per inch) for the finest detail… otherwise, monofilament polyester (169 threads per inch)
Since I don’t know what you want, here’s just a lot of info on doing your own screen printing in various ways:
http://www.printcutsew.com/81/quick-and-easy-build-your-own-silkscreen-frame
http://www.artsupply.com/speedball/silkscreenkitsframes.htm
http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+screen+print
HTH,
Diane B.
1) Hama beads are sold in AC Moore stores.
2) I don’t know that answer, but didn’t want to ignore it.
3) I have never seen a screen printer for clothing in either one of those stores, so am supposing that you might try an online company. I wonder if you might also be able to find something like that on Ebay? When I was a kid, we made our own screen printer at camp and got to print a shirt.