Testing out block printing

A printed cloth hanging over the edge of a desk, patterned with a grid of pink squares each holding a dark green square. A keyboard sits beside it.

Testing block printing on fabric. A geometric repeat, pink triangles around teal squares, pulled by hand onto a piece of cotton.

The registration wanders and the ink is uneven in places, which is really the point of a test. You learn where the pressure needs to be and how much ink the block wants to hold.

This was me working out whether it was worth doing properly. The block drawn up on the computer was the other end of the same question, whether to make the blocks by machine or by hand.

A finished block print, green squares on a pink ground.