History of Screen Printing/Silk Screen Printing

Screen printing mesh, also referred to a sprinting mesh, is a method of creating  custom clothing or products by printing a design on top of a fabric or textile  using a stenciled silk screen. The process of achieving this design is  done using silk screen mesh software.
 The first form of screen printing mesh  fabric was used in China during the Song Dynasty  as a technique of transferring designs on to  fabrics, but it didn’t gain popularity in Western Europe until printing mesh became accessible through trade. It has significantly evolved since then,  moving on to becoming popularized by household names like Andy Warhol and other  contemporary artists in the 1960s.   American artist and inventor Michael Vasilantone brought screen printing  to the masses after realizing the machinery used in the textile and screen  printing business he started with his wife Fannie, called Vastex, wasn’t up to par. This led him to receive a  patent on the first screen printing machine in 1969 for the first dual rotary  printing press.