The New Tomato Design

Another amazing day. Way too warm for April 5Th, but no complaints. As promised, here are some photos of our newest design, the luscious, juicy Tomato. The process goes from idea to thought process to image to cutting and building screen to printing. This culminates in bringing the finished product to Market. So exciting! I wanted to show some photos of the Tomato hanging for the clothesline at the Market booth but they sold off the line too fast to let me take a picture. Yay!

Here we adhere the lacquer film to the screen. Given that our process is pretty old school, this is the only nasty part of the whole deal. So, it makes it really nice to be able to do it outside in the fresh air!
Just a little time to air dry before we're ready to peel off the backing and tape off the edges.

After doing the first color, we let it air dry and apply the second color. It really comes to life!
And here we are. The culmination of all the work! Actually, there's a whole lot more to this whole process. after the printing is done, we let it air dry for a day and launder it in three successively hotter washes to remove the washing soda and excess dye. After 33 1/3 years of doing this, I still get excited every time I see a new finished product!