Screenprinting Onto Tea Towels
| Location | Leicester Print Workshop |
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| Date & Time | Saturday 3rd March 10.00am - 4.00pm. |
| Tutor | Alex Palmer / Zoe Potter |
Produce a unique and original tea towel featuring your own screenprinted design. • Learn the process of exposing your design to silkscreen • Mix and prepare colours • Print on to fabric. Tea towels provided.
About the Tutors
Alex Palmer graduated from Loughborough University in 2010 with a 2:1 BA Honours in Printed Textiles Design. Currently working at De Montfort University in the Printed and Dyeing Textiles department, Alex works closely with students introducing a variety of printing/dyeing techniques to enable the students to further develop their work.
Alex also produces dyed/printed textiles outside of her usual work to keep her inspired and on trend with what is happening in the textiles industry.
Zoe Potter graduated from The University of Central England in 1998 with a first class BA Honours in Textile design with a specialism in printed textiles. Zoe has a passion for arts education and loves helping people to discover their creative potential.
Her art practice explores surface decoration using print and paint techniques. Layering colour, texture and pattern to create vibrant compositions.
Course structure
Saturday am
- Welcome to LPW and an introduction to the weekend
- Demo: How to coat a screen.
- Look at imagery to be put onto screen - photocopy designs onto acetate ready for exposing.
- Demo: Expose screen.
- Demo: Mixing print pastes.
- Demo: How to print.
- Experiment with screens onto calico, layering imagery and colour.
- Print final designs onto tea towels.
- Heat press to fix designs onto tea towels
- Clean up and evaluation
Bookings
Online: You can book online here by credit / debit card or Paypal.
Telephone: You can pay by card over the phone during our opening hours (Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm). Call us on 0116 251 4174.
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Pre-course information: We will send you details of how to find us and what to bring with you when we process your booking.
Concessions
Full-Print Members of Leicester Print Workshop are entitled to a 10% discount on our inhouse courses. Interested in joining LPW as a member? Click here for more information.