silk screening questions?

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Post by Bert Weiss »

shasta wrote:i'm messed up with meshes...? i ordered a 230 mesh screen and i was going to order some thompson enamels and their standard size is 80 mesh. do these have any correlation? do i need a finer enamel mesh with that screen? what is a girl to do?
thanks.
I think that you can get 325 mesh Thompson Enamel through your 230 mesh screen. Personally I think the Thompson colors are dead looking.
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