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RE: Long Time, No See Steemians!! Haven't posted any ART in 1.5yrs!
I think my HS made theirs, it looked like heating lights used for chickens, it was just in a box. In fact all the frames and thing that held them were made in the HS wood shop and metal shot. Students made the frame holder, it was poorly welded, but it worked. They were made 20 or more years before I even had the class. The frames the wood shop teacher replaced regularly though, they weren't that old. I thought maybe silk screen shirts were new when they decided they wanted to make them, it would have obviously pre-dated computers. I know shirts from the 70s aren't slick screened, they had a iron on graphic or something, at least all the vintage Star Wars shirts are like that.
I've done that before with heating lights. I use to build and make all my screens and equipment when I first started out, been screen printing since 1991. Use to do all my colour separations by hand. Shirts from the 70s not all of them through were iron-on heat transfers. The glossy slick ones are called cold-peel transfers cause you wait till the transfer is cold and then peel it off and that gives it that slick glossy look.