Making Banners for Knight realms!

I've done silk screening in years prior (thank you art school), but never took printmaking so I'm uncertain how different the two are. That being said, I'm between houses and have no space in the first, and the second is covered in dirt, sawdust, and snow.

I'm really not too familiar with this - is silk screening the one where you put the mesh down and the stencil and then squeegee ink onto the thing, or is that screen printing? I did the first one, and that's the one I know I have space for.

Yes, that is silk screening! Where you have a mesh with the light-screened pattern (done in reverse so the sun bleaches some of the pattern, yada yada yada) then you take said screen, flop it on fabric and squeegee fabric paints through the mesh. Fun stuff. Tempermental when it comes to making screens, but beautiful results.

A cleaner transfer happens when you apply the stencil to the screen. A stencil applied to the screen gets space between for the ink to blot and create widening. The best bet is to either "glue" your screen over a cut out positive, or use a photo emulsion and a photo positive to "burn" your image. I made the current iteration of our guard badges if you would like further input.

That's not clear at all... Attaching a stencil to the screen is unreliable. Using emulsion or glue to block out parts of the actual screen itself gets a cleaner transfer...

Yes, burning is the best method, though it takes specialized tools/materials/dark room