Kilgrimol Heritage Crafts - Block Printing

Come and join local Living History enthusiast Heather as she brings to life crafts from the Northwest's Heritage. Demonstrating the slowly vanishing skills that went into producing our clothing using natural materials.

Inspired by Heritage Crafts Red List, we’re focusing on endangered crafts. To see the full list of crafts please visit our website

This month's session focuses on Block Printing

Status: Endangered

Well we enjoyed making the pigments last month, let’s turn them into art prints.

Block Printing traditionally involves printing by hand onto textiles or paper. An artist would carve their own wooden blocks, building up a design by laying down different colours and patterns to bring to life either a story or a pattern. 

Historically this art form has been used to create scriptures, when hand copying would have been impossible to meet demand. Used  locally and more recently to create bespoke patterns for use in the fashion industry for cotton summer dresses and totes.

We are going to look at historical examples of blocks, create our own design and blocks using a modern alternative to wood.Then we will print our patterns onto fabric. 

Don’t worry if you did not attend the pigment class, we will provide modern inks to bring your creations to life. 

Please wear something appropriate for this colourful class as you will be getting hands on with your printing blocks.

ACCESS & VENUE

Access: If you have additional access needs (e.g. large print, BSL interpreter, level access) Please let us know by emailing or sending us an SMS text/WhatsApp message on 07957 602790‬

These sessions are in our upstairs workshop space. There is currently no level access. It’s a single flight of 14 steps then you go around the corner and there are two small steps. Once you’re upstairs there’s a loo. You shouldn’t need to come downstairs for anything until the end of the event.

If you can’t manage the stairs but really want to attend, please let us know by emailing (using the contact organiser button/link) or sending us an SMS text/WhatsApp message on 07957 602790 and will try our best to accommodate.

Getting here

• Tram to North Pier
• Bus:
• No 6 or 18 bus to Topping St.
• No 3, 3a, 5c, 6, 18 to Church St (Stanley Buildings)
• No 5, 5a, 5b, 6, 7a, 14 to Talbot Rd
• Driving: The closest pay and display car parks are on East Topping St and Talbot Road multi storey. There is also parking at the nearby Sainsbury’s supermarket, please make sure that you check the terms before you use the car park.

REFUNDS

• If you can no longer attend, please request a refund using the link in your confirmation email.
• Orders can be refunded up to 7 days before the event.
• Refunds will be subject to the Eventbrite booking fee of 6.95% + £0.59 per ticket