Printing stalled this morning due to wacky spray job & a lack of penetrating light.
So aggravating when your screens are coated & dried all good n' ready to burn and somehow you screw it up with dripping over-spray and a film that isn't transparent enough.
Urban Craft uprising was so much fun! Thanks to everyone who came out and supported us this past weekend!
Friday, July 09, 2010
No more digging for shirts in bins, we made the perfect shelf for vending at fairs! Board ends slide into slots we cut in the milk crates. Milk crates stay firmly stacked together. Totally mobile and sturdy. Oh sweet sweet love. Ours backs will be happy. See you at Urban Craft Uprising this weekend!
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Friday, July 02, 2010
Slow Buckled!
We just got the first round of pewter belt buckles made from our molds this week! You may remember how a loong time ago we posted the drawing (above photo) that we sent to the casting foundry in Seattle for the buckle design. Well, it's many months later and we have buckles in hand & are playing around with different drawings to laser and wood inlays. This bike design is one of 8 or so drawings we're using for the first buckles. It's just a sneak peek, there's much more to come.
Come see us and our shirts and our buckles at the farmers market in Anacortes tomorrow, Sat July 3rd! We'll be there 9 - 2pm.
Slow Loris was started in Oakland Ca. in 1997 by Jessica Lynch. Re-locating to Guemes island, Slow Loris continued production, screen printing drawings onto shirts, paper and clothing for people around the world, and for touring bands like "Tv on the Radio". While keeping true to the hand made quality (no computers are ever used for design making) Jessica had her "hands" full and in 2007 teamed up with good friend Arlo Rumpff. Arlo had been a fisherman in the Bering sea, and brought his hard working enthusiasm to Slow Loris just in time. He learned how to screen print, (he's better than JEssica now) models most of the shirts on the web site, and deals with a lot of the business side of Slow Loris, a part of the job Jessica was NEVER good at. Team Slow was now complete.
Any average workday in the studio consists of drawing, singing, printing, and beach walks with a bunch of dogs. There's also a pig named Marnie-biddles who likes to observe through the windows and get into things, (this makes Jessica somewhat crazy, but she still loves him).