Block Printing is a time honored craft that utilizes natural materials (wood blocks, metal mordants and dye plants) to make an unlimited possibility of surface designs. Learn about direct mordant application on fabric & immersion dyeing. My Block Printing Tutorial will not only show you how to print with mordants & naturally dye but will ALSO guide through the process of making your own custom wood blocks!

Included in this tutorial …

• Materials & Resources Lists with direct links to my favorite suppliers of fabric, wood, dyes, etc.

• You’ll learn how to make custom printing wood blocks in various ways. Creating & transferring your custom print designs with multi-color block design considerations. The whole process of selecting block materials & carving wood blocks in multiple ways.

• There are different kinds of wood you can use that work wonderfully (especially for the beginner) & can be carved relatively quickly - all info included in the tutorial.

• How to carve alternative accessible materials such as potato stamps for a kid friendly process.

• Direct links to inexpensive & easy to work with block printing materials - the wood carving is easier than you think!

• How to make concentrated printing mordants that are perfectly suited for printing or painting on fabric. Anywhere the fabric has been printed with a mordant medium with your block will receive the dye much more readily in the dye pot, giving a print!

• Setting up your print table space & Block Printing

• This tutorial is suitable for every natural dye (except indigo which requires different methods to achieve patterns- see my Soy Paste Resist Tutorial) and can create a whole spectrum of color from one singular dye such as Madder- the classic dyestuff employed in the tutorial.

• Making mordant printing pastes that will create many different colors from the SAME DYE BATH!

• Extracting dye from ANY dyestuff including ALL my special considerations for Madder in a comprehensive Madder Dyeing Guide.

• Dyeing & fixing the colors & removing excess stained color from the background for the most striking designs possible!

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