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  • Rainbow Spiral Tie Dye T-Shirt

    Rainbow Spiral Tie Dye T-Shirt

    You only need three colours of dye to create this amazing rainbow tie dye T-shirt. This is a brilliant project to work on with children as it can be used to teach about primary and secondary colours and colour mixing. Peg the centre of your T-shirt with a clothes peg. You will need to choose …
  • Meet the Maker: Shelly Brown

    Meet the Maker: Shelly Brown

    I’m Shelly Brown – an illustrator and printmaker based in lovely Ely, Cambridgeshire. I mainly create lino prints with a focus on people, and connection. Describe your printmaking process. My process changes every single day. I still haven’t worked out a magic formula for getting things perfect, and tend to go with the flow. It’s …
  • How to Block Print onto Fabric with Speedball Fabric Block Printing Ink

    How to Block Print onto Fabric with Speedball Fabric Block Printing Ink

    Speedball's Fabric Block Printing Ink creates a bold print onto fabric so you can create your own striking designs! We're using a piece of traditional lino to create our block and then printing it onto a piece of cloth to upholster a stool for the studio...
  • Meet the Maker: Joshua Miles

    Meet the Maker: Joshua Miles

    I am a full time printmaker specialising mainly in reduction linocuts (sometimes monotypes). I grew up in South Africa where I met my Scottish wife. We live and work between our two countries but mainly in Scotland. Describe your printmaking process. I start by taking my own photo reference, drawing on my lino with a …