Printmaking and Textile Design, Division 4
There are so many rich traditions of textile design that give us the incredible variety we see every day. This winter in Printmaking, students learned about and experimented with both pattern-making -- including tessellated blocks -- and the technical production process of relief carving printing.
Taking inspiration from a wide variety of sources -- traditional African and Asian fabrics, Escher tessellations, meaningful symbols, and original illustrations -- students began the term by experimenting with designs that were geometric in origin. The ability to repeat the design in numerous formulations allowed us to discover shapes and relationships that emerge in combination. Students worked with water-based inks on paper and oil-based inks on fabric, improving their carving and printing techniques over the course of the class. All students will be returning next term, some excited to continue a design-based practice while others look forward to carving images and illustrations.
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