Indian Block Printing - Eastwood Library - Adult Learning

Eastwood Library, Eastwood

Key details

Date
Time 9:30am - 1:30pm
Venue Eastwood Library, Eastwood
For ages 19+
Group size 5 - 12
Cost FREE - £16

About this course

This course is for anyone that loves pattern building and colour. Over the course you gain the confidence to create prints with traditional craved blocks from Indian. We look at the history of Indian Print Blocking and how Printing and Blocks are made in Indian today.

Learners are required to provide their own substance to print onto paper, or thin card or fabric, such as tote bags or pillowcases. Over the course we analyse patterns and look at the Pattern Theory – how it is an underlying structure in culture and the environment around us. We recreate patterns by repeating units; rotation, reflection, and tiling of shapes. Also look at layering of designs over each other. We look at Colour Theory – looking at a colour wheel and seeing how colours can blend and complement each other. Have an understanding of how colours can change a design mood. Look at Festival of Colours – Holi and other international festivals From discussion over the course individuals gain understanding of the pros and cons of different paints on the market and investigate methods of using waste paint.

What will learners achieve by the end of the course?

  • Gain understanding equipment

  • Knowledge of Colour theory

  • Design development and Structure Patterns

  • Gain some understanding of artist and their use of patterns

  • Know how to print with wooden blocks

Please bring to the course:-

  • Fabric – this can be anything such as old bed linen, tote bags or T-shirts

  • Paper, Card to print on to

  • If you have paints – Fabric paint if working on fabric which you want to wash, or any ready mix paints such as craft aryclics

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

  • Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 

  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

  • Greater London

  • Greater Manchester

  • Liverpool City Region

  • Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland

  • Tees Valley

  • West of England

  • West Midlands

  • West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

  • Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

  • Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

  • You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.

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