The roots of the decorated apparel industry go back to ancient China, where the technique of screen printing (a form of stenciling) was developed sometime during the Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD).  Originally, the process used silk screens, hence the other popular name silk screening.  Over the years, the technique expanded with new methods spread to other Asian countries like Japan and was furthered by creating newer methods.  It was Europe from Asia sometime in the late 1700s but it wasn’t popular until later.  An even older textile printing method, woodblock printing, had also been invented in China about 220 AD and was introduced to Europe in the 1100s.  They are also hugely popular for events, charity causes, and local businesses.  https://www.shopworx.com/the-history-of-printed-t-shirts/  Words appearing on a t-shirt:

WISH

YOU

WERE

BEER   

Stanley Travis Rice Jr. (1942–2002) was an American poet and artist.  He was the husband of author Anne Rice.  Rice was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1942.  He met his future wife Anne O'Brien in high school.  They briefly attended North Texas State University together, before marrying in 1961 and moving to San Francisco in 1962, to enroll at San Francisco State University, where they both earned their bachelor's and master's degrees.  Rice was a professor of English and Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.  It was the death of his and Anne's first child, daughter Michele (1966–1972), at age six of leukemia, which led to Stan Rice becoming a published author.  His first book of poems, based on his daughter's illness and death, was titled Some Lamb, and was published in 1975.  He encouraged his wife to quit her work as a waitress, cook and theater usher in order to devote herself full-time to her writing, and both eventually encouraged their son, novelist Christopher Rice, to become a published author as well.  Stan Rice's paintings are represented in the collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Rice    

Stan Rice is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Radiance of Pigs, Red to the Rind and False Prophet (published posthumously, 2003).  Read his pig poems here.  Rice has been the recipient of the Edgar Allen Poe Award of the Academy of American Poets, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and a writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.  See four pictures of his painting of pigs at https://www.porkopolis.org/pig_artist/stan-rice/   

Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; 1941–2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Bible fiction.  She is best known for writing The Vampire Chronicles.  She later adapted the first volume in the series into a commercially successful eponymous film, Interview with the Vampire (1994).  Born in New Orleans, Rice spent much of her early life in the city before moving to Texas, and later to San Francisco.  She began her professional writing career with the publication of Interview with the Vampire (1976), while living in California, and began writing sequels to the novel in the 1980s.  Rice's books have sold over 100 million copies, making her one of the best-selling authors of modern times.   She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years, from 1961 until his death from brain cancer in 2002 at age 60.  She and Stan had two children, Michele, who died of leukemia at age five, and Christopher, who is also an author.  Rice also wrote books such as The Feast of All Saints (adapted for television in 2001) and Servant of the Bones, which formed the basis of a 2011 comic book miniseries. Several books from The Vampire Chronicles have been adapted as comics and manga by various publishers.  Rice cited Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, John Milton, Ernest Hemingway, William Shakespeare, the Brontë sisters, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, and Stephen King as influences on her work.  She repeatedly returned to King's Firestarter for inspiration:  "I study the novel Firestarter whenever I'm blocked.  Reading the first few pages of Firestarter helps to get me going."  In 1973, while still grieving the loss of her daughter (1966–1972), Rice took a previously written short story and turned it into her first novel, the bestselling Interview with the Vampire.  She based her vampires on Gloria Holden's character in Dracula's Daughter.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Rice    

·      Why did the zombie eat brains?  He wanted food for thought.

·      What day of the week do ghosts like best?  Moan-day.

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