Since some of you seemed interested in this method of fabric (and paper) printing I’ll take a deeper dive. I had never heard of it before the Backgrounds and Textures class, but the technique has been around for at least a decade on YouTube, and who knows how much further back in pre-online video days.

This was my first print. You get two impressions from each press.
Here I used glass plates and printed on old monoprints and newspaper.
Textile paint circles on linen, printed separately.

I found that several factors can affect the thickness of the branches and ...

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