Today, we're taking you to the Parisian suburbs, Rue de la Gueule du Bois. Follow us to discover what a day in a screen printing workshop looks like.
But first, you're probably wondering, "What is screen printing?" You'll see, it's not complicated. It's a printing technique that allows you to deposit paint or ink directly onto a surface using a large rubber stamp. Here's what you'll find on our travel bottles or collectibles, for example.
How are things going on the ground? After hours of waiting for a taxi, we arrive in front of a large hangar in the middle of nowhere, at the end of a long road. It's actually quite charming, but it looks enormous! Inside, we unexpectedly find a tiny production line, a team of four smiling women who explain all the little details to us. First, they mix the pigments by hand and weigh them before pouring them onto a board engraved with the product's design (the design on the board is actually the reverse of the final drawing). It's thanks to this team and their technique that the lettering and designs of your products are always top-notch.
Then it's the... "aaah" moment! The big pink rubber stamp comes to rest on the plate, bounces around, soaking up the paint, before landing on the glass and leaving the design there. It works exactly the same way as a stamp... and looks like a big strawberry bubble.
Then all the bottles are left to dry before being packaged and sent to Chartres a few kilometers away for filling!
PS: Our partner workshop uses paint to print the pattern on the products and not a metallic film like in other workshops.
For a very small series of only 300 pieces (as we did with our Carne Bollente collaboration), we need to find workshops that agree to work with such small quantities. The goal is to keep the collaboration ultra-limited edition = only a few collector pieces. Thank you Arthus!
