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Carving my way

 

Priority #1 - Create 

I love the feel of lino giving way under the blades of  my Pfeils. I look forward to testing the print, checking for noise and tidying up until the print is perfect for textile printing. This beetle, inspired by a gorgeous book of insects by Ponsonby's, is cut into a 15cm x 15cm piece of lino. I'm creating a set of six or eight, connected only by the uniformity of lino block size - we'll see how that works in a monochrome print run on Kauffman PFD fabric.




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