“Mesa, Ariz., screen printer / airbrusher Spider likes to tell the (possibly apocryphal) story of the Chinese merchant who, about 2500 B.C., combined the even-then old art of stenciling and then-current rage at the Emperor’s court — decorated robes — to produce an early printed garment. ‘I’m not sure where that story comes from,’ said Spider, ‘but even today I can see that old Chinaman’s reasoning: There was a big market for a printed garment and it was faster and cheaper to stencil it than to paint it by hand.’” MORE ➲