Indian Block printing

Today I gave my studio a long overdue clean up, it will probably need doing again before my students return after the holidays but it does look a bit cleaner.

As part of the India project my studenst are working on we have been looking at the block printing in the Jaipur area of India, following my visit to the Anoki Museum of Printing. We attended a block printing course there and bought a load of small pieces of fabric from the Government craft shop in Jaipur. I also bought some fabric from other shops in india, some from Udaipur and some from Ahmedabad. Today I started to cut small pieces and stick them in my sketch book .