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Relief and Block Printing: What an Exciting World of Creativity!

7/1/2015

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I continue to enjoy my Textile Design class! And I am happy to share two new techniques I just learned: relief and block printing. 

My class project has a theme and that is to chose a culture/country and generate fabric patterns and designs that draw on this country and its heritage. I choose to research China, the traditional paintings, and its landscape. I studied the most popular colors and textures found in traditional Chinese fabrics.

Once I gathered sufficient visuals, I sketched several ideas in my sketchbook. Then, I create a relief - a stamp made out of cardboard and Styrofoam. For this relief, I decided to go with geometric shapes I located in common fabrics. Below you can see how I combined a total of four stamps into various pattern options. 
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Keeping with China as the inspiration for my work, I also created a block. Chinese paintings often depict flowers, trees, and birds. I located a lovely painting of flowers that I ended up carving into a linoleum block. I then printed the block on paper and manipulated the imprint in the computer. Et voila, see all of the options I came up with!
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I am looking forward to learning new techniques. I will keep you posted of my progress.

Have you ever tried relief or block printing? Let me know! 
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