52 Weeks of Printmaking

Remember last week, when I wrote about my friend Kenya, and the natural ink she was experimenting with? Well, she tweaked her recipe a bit (a lot), and brought me two jars of the most beautiful, delicious-smelling cochineal ink. She said something about clove oil preserving the ink, so the ink did smell a bit […]

Week 36: Two-color block print on cotton muslin. Have you ever created something that you swear you’ve seen somewhere else before? I was convinced that this print was unintentionally cribbed from an Alexander Girard for Herman Miller fabric, but I can’t find anything similar. It does look a bit like the Herman Miller logo, though.

Week 35: Two-color block print on linen. I went on my first real vacation (i.e. one that does not involve visiting family) in three years last week. I booked it on a Tuesday, left that Friday morning, and came back the following Wednesday morning. And I discovered that, while I’m terrible about taking vacations, I’m

Week 34: Two-color block print on cotton muslin. It seems I can’t get enough of the salmon-ochre color combination, or of circles (for example, last week’s print). But since this is my project, I can do whatever I want. So I do. These are the exact same inks I used last week, but they look
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