Re Ironraven

It is actually quite complicated to print on Silk. I believe that there is no simple way to achieve it using a Personal Computer and commercial inkjet printer. Normally the process that would used would be to produce a print screen negative and then 'pull' though the sceeen the coloured ink on to the silk.

Making the screen print in quite difficult as this would normally mean engraving a wooden or metal block the image of the colour positive image of the map to print onto the screen to produce the screen negative.

To get an accurate screen print using a digitally stored computer map, the lines on the map will have to converted into a set of instructions a milling machine tool will understand, the wooden or metal block will have to be finely machined out using the milling machine tool. The process can be repeated for different coloured lines to produce multiple positive blocks (one for each colour). You could of course do this by hand but the accuracy will be only as good as your engraving skills. The back of Linoleum makes a simple engraving medium in much the same way as the engraved wood or metal block.

A number of screen negatives can then be produced for each line colour using the engraved blocks. Each colour can then be printed using the prepared negative screens onto the silk. Once you have prepared the negative screens you can easily produce multiples of the silk map and sell them on as limited edition map masterpieces in the art of silk screen printing.