Description

Wearable canvas workshop offers Afri-Love Fest participants an immersive, hands-on textile customization by merging traditional screen printing with freehand acrylic painting on blank cotton t-shirts and tote bags. Guided step-by-step through the process, festival goers begin by selecting from a curated collection of pre-exposed mesh screens featuring assorted designs and geometric patterns, mastering the fundamentals of ink pulling, registration, and squeegee technique to lay down a crisp print. Once the base layer is set, participants elevate their custom gear using high-pigment acrylics to add personal color fills, intricate linework, directly onto the fabric. The session concludes with a quick heat-curing phase using portable presses, transforming raw materials into durable, fully washable, and functional pieces of festival merchandise while equipping attendees with practical, multi-medium textile art skills to take home.