Workshop Fee (includes materials fee): $200
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Design and print your own t-shirt and kitchen tea towel designs on an etching press using speedy carve blocks (the "pink stuff"), which is an easy alternative to hard linoleum.

This one-day introduction to stamp block printing will teach the basic steps for block print design, the use of hand carving tools, and inking and printing your designs onto a blank t-shirt and a blank tea towel, both by hand and on an etching press. The instructor will provide one blank t-shirt and one blank tea-towel for printing on; students are welcome to bring one additional blank shirt of their own to print. 

Students will learn the following skills:

• Designing a clean drawing suitable for stamp block carving and printing
• Transferring an image to a block
• Using hand carving tools
• Inking and printing on an etching press onto fabric
   

>> Prerequisite: None <<

Materials to Bring: Come prepared with ideas or a printout of images for a 6 x 8" block and a 3 x 3" block. This can be something figurative (a drawing of a bird, a car, a flower) or a little more abstract or geometric, especially if you're interested in repeating a pattern on your shirt or towel.

Date & Time: Sunday, January 19, 2025 :: 9:30am-5:30pm

Location: 375 Rhode Island St, San Francisco, CA 94103

NOTE: Please read over the SFCB Registration Policies before signing up for a class. Registration will close approximately three days prior to the start date of the workshop to allow the instructor time to prep materials for class. We recommend you not wait to register, as workshops that don't meet our minimum enrollment will be canceled, sometimes as much as a week in advance.
 

About the Instructor | Patricia Wakida (she/her)

I'm a bibliophile, artist and writer with a background in trade publishing. My relations to books are kept tangible and toothsome by running wasabi press, making illustrated letterpress books, broadsides, posters and cards on a Chandler and Price tabletop platen press and a small etching press. My book arts education began with an apprenticeship in Japanese papermaking in Mino, Gifu- prefecture, Japan in 1996, followed by an apprenticeship at the Arts and Crafts Press under linoleum block artist and letterpress printer, Yoshiko Yamamoto, in Berkeley, California. I've also taught linoblock carving and letterpress workshops as a teaching assistant in the book arts program at Mills College, the San Francisco Center for the Book, and ASUC Art Studio. 

Past Student Reviews:

“Great instructor and lots of latitude to work on my own project.”

“Instructor had great energy, very fun, enthusiastic.”

“Experienced instructor, she understood that it was all about the students and what they could learn and make.”