![]() ![]() ![]() I will bring a selection of woodblocks that will be available for printing at off times during the week. Several natural dyes from the area will be prepared, including an indigo vat, and materials will be dyed to make a Tibetan stitched binding on the last day. We will collectively make a sampler of each paper. Paper pulp will be cooked and beaten from several indigenous fibers lokta, rechag pa, edgeworthia and saa or paper mulberry. In the workshop we will make models of palm leaf manuscripts-incising, making ink, inking them, and then fashioning simple covers. ![]() We will have the opportunity to see into the world of these books with slides, video clips, and examination of a wide range of materials. The long thin shape of the leaf influenced later manuscript traditions as Buddhism travelled through SE Asia and north to the Himalaya. Sacred texts originating in India were often made on varieties of palm leaf. She teaches printmaking and book arts at the University of Alabama Huntsville. In 2004 she was one of seven artists selected to learn traditional Japanese woodblock printing from master carvers and printers at the Nagasawa Residency on Awaji Island, Japan. She received her MFA from University of the Arts and served as Victor Hammer Fellow from 2011-2013. Katie Baldwin produces artist books and prints under Queen Anne’s Revenge Press. One of the wonderful aspects of this process is that it does not require a press, or a large workspace! All participants will have the opportunity to carve and print their own two-color woodblock images. Participants will learn about tools, materials, and the carving sequence and printing methods associated with this process. This workshop will be an introduction to the printing process mokuhanga, which uses water-based pigments (or sumi ink), a kento registration method, and is printed by hand with a baren. Learn how to achieve multiple colors in a woodblock image with perfect registration through the traditional technique of Japanese woodblock printing. ![]()
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