LibGuides: Barnard Design Center: Resource Guide: Vinyl Cutting and Screen Printing

Materials

When cutting vinyl stickers or vinyl stencils in our space, you need a few bits of material, depending on the project type. For vinyl cutting, you'll need:

Vinyl sheets

For screen printing, you'll need:

Material (canvas, paper, fabric, etc.)
Fabric ink or paint (depending on which material you're screen printing onto).
Vinyl (to create the stencil for your screen print).

Please note: your vinyl sheets should not exceed 12x12 inches; you can always cut them down, but it makes sense to buy the right measurement of material up front. And if you're interested in purchasing materials, check out the "Textiles and Sewing" portion of this guide.

Vinyl Cutting Supplies

Amazon
Amazon has a ton of materials, but they have the best prices on simple packs of vinyl sheets. Great choice if you just want a simple vinyl sheets in solid colors.
Etsy
Etsy offers a variety of trinkets and craft/artsy goods, but you can purchase printed sheets of patterned vinyl, which is great if you're trying to make stickers or heat press the vinyl onto fabric.
Brilliant Vinyls
A specialty retailer that provides access to a number of vinyl sheets in various sizes, but they also offer foils and heat transfer vinyl as well.
Expressions Vinyl
Expressions Vinyl offers a huge selection of patterned vinyl, heat transfer vinyl, and more.
Swing Design
Swing Design offers a variety of arts and craft supplies, including regular and heat-transfer vinyl, as well as screen printing supplies/ink.

Screen Printing & Fabric Ink

We currently have five (5) 160 screens for fabric, and one (1) 230 screen for paper.

Blick Art Materials
Blick carries a range of art materials, but has an entire section dedicated to fabric paints.