Fabric Block Printing: Carving Your Block (Class #2 of 3)

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Interested in doing your own block printing but have no idea how to get started? Watch this video to learn how to carve your own wood blocks - or at learn about what to look for in blocks that you are interested in buying for block printing! This class is the second class of a three-part series and it would make the most sense to watch the other video first!
Class #1 Fabric Block Printing: A Brief History and Primer in How to Get Started
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We discuss all of the known extant blocks - that we believe were intended for use on fabrics (not paper).
We also provide you with a list of supplies to buy and good places to get them. To make it easy on you, we have put all of the supplies together in our Amazon Affiliate Store (please note: we do make pennies on the dollar for anything you buy off of our list):
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Don't want to carve your own blocks, but still want to blockprint? Check out this block vendor:
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This class is part of the SCA Kingdom of the Midrealm's online RUM Virtual Learning classes and attending this class will count towards your Licentiate, Graduate, and Adept degrees. However, you don't have to be a member of the SCA to join and learn!
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[@EnchantadoreaPlumaDelDragon]

I love this class. It was very useful. I like the dremel method. Ya'll are adorbs together. It made the class so much fun.

[@angelicadinovalipa7739]

I wanted more info on block printing (have printed dozens of yards of fabric, but can always learn more), and am delighted to have found your videos and handouts. I will be sharing your program with others in the East Kingdom!

[@HarpyandHag]

Thank you so much! So glad you found these useful!!! We definitely have a whole series lined up, so please be sure to subscribe and click to be notified!

[@Achbar]

Sweet! Thanks for sharing

[@HarpyandHag]

Thanks for tuning in!!!

[@etnmarchand]

Once again I missed you live (it was my last day of work)... thank you for posting these and I hope to join you live for your 3rd class! Someone asked about treating the wood before printing. So my experience in my college printmaking classes (which was oil based inks on paper) we treated woodblocks with spray shellac before using them. I suspect that might not translate to printing acrylic/latex on fabric though. I don't yet have enough experience with fabric printing to see how differently it behaves. But I intent to test it out at some point. (edit - we only used shellac on wood blocks... not linoleum)

[@HarpyandHag]

That's a really great tip! I'd be curious to try that on some of our wood blocks, because I'm finding that the more used they get, the more likely the pigments are to stick to the block, so there might be something to that!