Join me for a day Printing with Leaves at Pennard House, Somerset .​

You will learn how to choose suitable leaves for printing and how to prepare them to print using disperse dyes , you will prepare dye papers and learn about the process of sublimation printing.

We will prepare the leaves and backgrounds in the morning and after lunch print beautiful and often suprising designs onto fabric.

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Learn about the traditional craft of Indian Block Printing and enjoy this lovely venue.

We will start by looking at examples of hand carved printing blocks and fabric samples and using photos the history of block printing and the process involved will be explained.

After a demonstration you will have time to print on paper using the collection of blocks, we will think about repeat patterns, colour, design and combining blocks .

After lunch you will print a fabric piece to take home using your favourite blocks.