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Printing - Block Printing
In the workshop you will have the opportunity to make your very own pattern blocks or use some of our simple blocks to experiment with hand printing, colour combinations and repeat layouts. Be guided by Joanna Fowles, textile designer, researcher, artist and textiles teacher at UTS, who will assist you to create a unique outcome.
Teacher: Joanna Fowles
Workshop Duration: Full Day
Description: Swatches of block printed samples will be shown alongside discussion of how to make a block out of lino or utilising found materials. Layout, repeat motifs and colour will be discussed. Students will then have the opportunity to make their own blocks, experiment on paper before creating final designs.
Materials to bring: There will be a materials fee for this class of either $25 or $40.
$40 kit: lino cutter, lino block, calico swatches, linen pack - 4 napkins & 1 teatowel
$25 kit: lino cutter, lino block, calico swatches (bring along your own fabric to print).
Additional fabric swatches - natural fibres - cotton/linen work well
Takeaway: Knowledge of basic block printing skills, layout and repeat. A printed teatowel and napkins or fabric.
Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: None
Homework: Consider what you may like to print. Any printed inspirational imagery or sketches are useful however not necessary.
So I wrote last week a post asking “Is my making fast fashion?”. And then I did a video on Instagram discussing similar topics in a slightly different way. And as always, you lovely humans have helped me clarify some of my thinking with your thoughtful, clever commentary.
And while I think there is so much more to discuss, here are four key possibly-more-meta ideas that have come up for me out of those conversations.
In using the quote last week that suggested that there was no single answer, and suggesting that this was freeing, I really did mean that we should sit in the grey. Not that the lack of “an” answer to this question should mean we get to ignore the question but rather that the lack of “an” answer means that we need to keep asking bigger more beautiful questions. And keep asking them.
Is my making fast fashion?
Am I living my values or merely thinking them?
And how can I make those two things a little more aligned in this moment?
These are my big beautiful questions.
Yours might be different.
And importantly this leads to point 2.