Designing Avoska with Your Hands, Or How to Make a Trip to the Store Pleasant?

Yesterday I was returning home from the Okey on the "Teshka". A woman with a large plastic bag with groceries came in after me. Further events developed according to a familiar scenario - while she was trying to pull a small thing out of her purse with one hand, the handle of the package burst, and the contents rolled over the minibus. Auntie was rather big, and taking a very ridiculous pose, she gathered for five minutes rolled tomatoes.

Remember, about 15-20 years ago there were no plastic bags at all and we somehow managed without them. Instead of them, there was a knitted mesh and a bag of cloth. This fashion again returns to us and the baggage comes back to our house, only today, it has changed a lot and is called an eco-bag. Famous designers consider it an honor to contribute to the design of some of them, and the western stars who are fighting for the protection of the environment are happy to use such string bags.

Such an interest in reusable bags is quite understandable. Firstly - it's convenient! Such a bag does not tear, it does not have to be carried in the hand, and even a heavily loaded string bag on the shoulder is much easier to carry. Secondly, what for me personally is also an important factor is the restriction of the use of polyethylene, which does not decompose for 400 years.

Now, in addition to the budget option avosek, began to appear ekosumki of expensive fabrics with a low-copy and author's design. And for a single-colored eco-bag without a picture, you can apply any image yourself, the benefit of modern technology allows you to do this even on one string bag.

Today I will talk about how to apply a string pattern to the string bag using the silk screen method at home. Here, I will focus on the basic technologies that you can use for this purpose. And, so, we buy an eco-bag, for example, here or we sew a bag ourselves.

• Application of the image on the eco-bag using the sublimation method . This is a method of digital full-color printing on fabric. They can print absolutely any image, for example, a photo of your favorite cat or idol.

Well, if you are a creative person, then you have cards in hand, you can create an eco-bag, which no one else will have and make a shopping trip more fun and pleasant.

• Drawing an image on a string bag using the silk screen method at home. The principle of silk screen printing is very simple and you can easily create a designer bag for yourself. By the way, such a bag can be an original and useful gift!

And so, for silk-screen printing we will need: a drawing, a frame (hoop for embroidery will do). For the stencil, we take tracing paper, polyethylene, polyethylene, a small roller (you can build a smooth roller) and acrylic paints.

• Create a picture for the bag. The image for serigraphy should be drawn and contain up to 6-8 colors (for each color we will separately make a stencil).
• On the frame we stretch a piece of loose nylon fabric, for example, nylon from pantyhose.
• We make stencils - for each color a separate stencil. From the stencil is cut the part that should stain, remember the stencil ruler? The principle is the same.
• In order that the picture does not accidentally print through the bag, inside the bag we put a cardboard
• We put on the area of the bag where the picture should be printed, the stencil for the first color, which occupies the largest area of the image. The black color is printed last.
• Over the stencil, put the frame on the bag with a taut capron.
• We put the first color on the roller and roll it over the capron.
• We remove the frame and the stencil and let the paint dry.
• Repeat all the same for all other colors, neatly combining the stencils for each color.

The designer bag is ready. Beauty, is not it! After the paints are completely dry, the bag can be washed without fear.