Indian Block Printing - High Pavement House - Sutton-in-Ashfield - Adult Learning
Schedule
Thu Oct 03 2024 at 12:00 am to Thu Oct 17 2024 at 11:59 pm
UTC+01:00Location
High Pavement | Nottingham, EN
About this Event
Key details
- Date: 3 - 17 October 2024
- Sessions: Thursdays: 5:30pm - 8pm
- No. sessions: 3
- Venue: High Pavement, Nottingham
- For ages: 19+
- Group size: 5 - 12
- Cost: FREE - £26.25
This course is for anyone that love fabrics and stitching, or those who want to have a go. Over the course you gain the confidence to create prints with traditional craved blocks from Indian. We also look at how you embellish them with stitching and accessories (such as beads etc).
Learners are required to provide their own substance to print onto this can be fabric such as cotton, and sewing kit including sewing threads and embroidery floss or twisted threads.
What will be covered on the course?
- Gain understanding equipment - Know how to print with wooden blocks
- Knowledge of Colour theory
- Design development and Structure Patterns
- Gain some understanding of artist and their use of patterns
- Develop Stitching skills
What will learners achieve by the end of the course?
- Be able to understand the process how the printing blocks are made.
- Be able to create prints onto fabric
- Understand colour theory and descriptive an example of some colour relationships
- Be able to embellish the prints with embroidery
- Develop/improve their eye and hand coordination
- Show an ability of reflecting on your learning
Also
- Analyse the benefits of creative activities to improved mental health
What you will need:
- Fabric – this can be anything such as old bed linen, something you want to stitch onto
- Inferencing if fabric is thin (optional)
- Sewing kit, threads and beads etc
Suggested Reading for the course
- Title: Indian textiles, Author: Gillow, John, ISBN: 9780500291184
- Title: Indian art close-up Author: Dallapiccola, Anna L. (Anna Libera), 1944- ISBN: 9780714124865
- Title: World textiles : a visual guide to traditional techniques, Author: Gillow, John.ISBN: 9780500282472
If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will beoffered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which mayprevent you from enrolling on the course please visit our webpage for furtherinformation https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/
To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:
- Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
- Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.
You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.
To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.
Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).
As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:
- Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
- Greater London
- Greater Manchester
- Liverpool City Region
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
- Tees Valley
- West of England
- West Midlands
- West Yorkshire
Check the FAQs page, or get in touch:
- By phone: 01623 677 200
- By email: [email protected]
Where is it happening?
High Pavement, High Pavement, Nottingham, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 0.00 to GBP 26.25