Turin Shroud
Experience of producing a visual copy by screen printing technology
What is the Turin Shroud?
Before printing, we must solve a several technical problems:
- How to fix such large piece of fabric for achieving a precision registration of colors
• Treated fabric of special impregnate for stiffening
• gluing fabric to plastic surface
But, the best solution, from our point of view, was to stretch the fabric on a metal frame
For this we made 10 special metal frames
Metallic Spacers
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We stretched fabric on the frame by pneumatic stretching devise with a tension of 5 N / cm
The result was disappointing
After this frame design was changed
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Such large size of frame required changing of printing table
For this we designed and manufactured 2 additional tables
Additional table was independently adjusted for precision colors registration
On these three tables was installed the new main printing table, which was made from the plywood board
This board was covered the sheet of composite material DIBOND
In same time we start test print on the small pieces of fabric
The printing process have 8 colors (LC; LM; LY; MM; MC; MY; K; DM)
CENTER
LEFT SIDE
CENTER
The printing process took place as follows
RIGHT SIDE
LC RIGHT SIDE
LC LEFT SIDE
Printing technique was slightly modified
First printed in the right part of the image from the center to edge, then frame to turn, and printed in the left part of the image, from center to edge too
After printing, to the frame was attached wheels
and than the frame was moved under UV lamp
All work took 3 months
After that, the Shroud was give to the customer and consecrated in Turin, by imposing on the real Shroud