Kilgrimol 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 the Heritage Crafts Red List, we’re focusing on endangered crafts. We'll supply • All materials and tuition • Hot/cold drinks and tasty snacks This month 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 leaflets, when hand copying would have been impossible to meet demand. More recently to create bespoke patterns for use in the fashion industry for cotton summer dresses and totes. We are going to create our own design and blocks using a modern alternative to wood for ease. 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 dyes. This session is in our upstairs workshop space. We have a lift! Otherwise it is fourteen steps turn a corner and two more steps. There is an accessible loo on the same floor. GETTING HERE • Tram & Train to Blackpool North Station • Bus: No 6 or 18 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. TOP TIP: If you need to park a car, then there is usually plenty of free on-street parking on Edward St and Topping St from 6pm. 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.