Tiles have been printed

 Printed tiles at the Power House

The tiles have been printed - because they are so heavy, I printed them right at at the Power House on the Roycroft Campus. I didn't want to haul them home, down and up my basement stairs and cart them back to the campus. The three designs were printed with black acrylic ink onto the terra cotta tiles. They will be available at the Roycroft Conference, October 18-21.

After I made the photographic screens, I screwed some wood strips to the backs in one corner for registration. I had to clamp each screen to the tile before I printed them - the tiles are not really flat and I had to pull the squeegee in two directions to get the image printed. I did this right after I made a presentation to a Roads Scholar group, telling them about
screen printing. I demonstrated by printing the last color on a multicolored print using two screens.