Crafts@Kirkgate: Block Printing Family Workshop

12th April 2025 10:00am

Kirkgate Centre

Category: Join In

Join Market Place Print Studio for a vibrant, family-friendly workshop exploring the playful technique of Block Printing.

There are two times available, 10am or midday, and the sessions run for approximately and hour and a half.

We will explore colour, pattern-making, tessellation and repetition through the prism of block printing using lino and rubber stamps.

You will learn how to use our range of hand carved stamps to create effective patterns and see how patterns emerge in both the negative space and printed space.

You will learn how to ink up a block printing stamp using special inks and how to confidently thump down a stamp for a crisp, punchy print.

We will provide blank organic tote bags for you to print onto and take home, lots of paper to create your own posters and gift wrap as well as fabric squares to print your own patches.

We also invite you to bring anything you’d like to print on to such as an item of clothing that could do with a revamp, a notebook with a blank cover or anything else that’s flat and you don’t mind practicing on…

Please bring with you:

  • Anything you’d like to block print onto such as an old item of clothing in need of a revamp
  • Clothes you don’t mind getting messy or inky

We will provide:

  • organic cotton tote bags (you will take home 1 each)
  • Block printing stamps – Inks – Paper and fabric square

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