THE PRINTING TABLE 0 / 4 colours
Pull the wooden handle down. The colour follows your hand.
Print the blue layer ↓ Preparing your printing table…
一版一色 · A COLOUR AT A TIMELayer by layer.A butterfly appears. Stretch out a little cotton. Keep the screen in place, and draw the squeegee towards you. Each pass adds another colour.
CHOOSE YOUR PATTERN Butterfly蝶恋花 Flower花开 Choosing another pattern starts a fresh cloth. 01 / CHOOSE YOUR CLOTH ▧ A single motif▦ Across the cloth
The same motif repeats in a 3 × 3 arrangement. 02 / YOUR COLOURS, ONE PATTERN
Tap an ink pot to change its colour. You can recolour printed areas, too.
Original Plum garden Blue hour Warm earth
Layer 1 Deep blue The ground and the little triangles.
Next Layer 2 Soft pink A softer colour in the wings and corners.
02 Layer 3 Leaf green The body, wing details and curved borders.
03 Layer 4 Vermilion red Dots, antennae and the last details.
04 Colour for layer 1 · Ground & triangles
Mix your own #104c80 Restore original colours ↺ A screen colour study. Fabric and printing inks will give their own colour in real life.
Make a cloth of butterflies ↗ How does the printing work? In this simplified screen-printing study, open areas of each colour screen let colour reach the cloth. Registration keeps the layers aligned; repeating the motif makes a larger design.
This is a colour-printing experiment, separate from indigo resist dyeing. Its layer order is illustrative, not a verified production sequence for a historic textile. Colour regions follow the reference image; this does not simulate inks mixing where screens overlap.
Read about screenprinting at the V&A ↗ Based on the supplied butterfly illustration. The original cloth also includes flowers; this study repeats only the butterfly tile.
See the supplied colour reference ↗ Try indigo resist in the courtyard ↗ 
