Join us for a four-session course exploring bookbinding methods, with opportunity to print your own book covers and end pages using monoprinting techniques.
This course will run over 4 sessions on Wednesdays 25th September – 16th October 6:30-9:00pm.
This 5 week evening course will run on Tuesdays 24th September – 22nd October 6pm-8.30pm.
Explore the process of screen printing onto paper and develop your confidence as an independent screen printer. You will learn how to register and layer your designs, and print with multiple colours. You will gain an understanding of the photo stencil emulsion technique and will learn how to coat and expose screens using our UV exposure unit. Your tutor will also introduce you to relevant contextual artists and screen printing terminology.
What experience do I need?
This workshop will introduce you to a version of collograph which uses relief inking methods to produce prints using our fantastic range etching presses and equipment in the print workshop. You’ll use oil based inks, stencils, collage and textures to create an exciting series of prints. This is a great introduction to the collograph technique.
What experience do I need?
Explore screen printing using paper stencils on this one-day workshop. A fun and experimental approach to screen print for any experience level.
Get to grips with our fantastic screen printing facilities and learn the basics of screen printing onto paper.
You will use paper stencil methods to print multi-layered prints, experimenting with transparent inks to produce interesting layers and outcomes. Handcut stencils allow you to work quickly and you’ll make a handful of layers throughout the day.
What experience do I need?
Drypoint etching is a printing process where lines or marks are scratched or inscribed into a surface which is then printed from. It is usually by the intaglio method, where the incisions are filled with ink and printed from, rather than the relief method which prints from the surface.
Learn and explore the basics of linocut on this one day workshop.
Lino is a relief printing process. The printing plate can be made from traditional hessian backed flooring lino or a polymer based block. We will use an easy cut lino which is softer and easier to use. You will be shown how to safely cut and carve an image or pattern into the lino using specialist cutting tools. You will be shown how to ink up and print the lino using our traditional Albion press and also some simple but effective methods that can be continued at home without a press.
Monoprinting uses a plate and stencil process and multiple layers of oil-based ink to make unique prints. This process is a great first introduction into printmaking – you’ll learn about inks and paper, and use our fantastic range of etching presses and equipment in the workshop.
Starting out with simple shapes and block colours you can build up into complex designs, textures and shades to create a series of prints onto paper.
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Join us for Yorkshire Day Celebrations in Morley Town Centre.
Enjoy a family fun filled day of stalls, food and drink, fairground rides, teapot trail and an outdoor cinema showing of Paddington at 2pm.
Plus Morley’s own Town Crier will be proclaiming his Yorkshire Day cry at 11am.
Thackray are pleased to be hosting this live broadcast of Any Questions? Take your place in the audience and quiz the people who set the national agenda when BBC Radio 4’s flagship topical discussion programme visits Leeds this August.
In this unique talk, Andrew Littlewood will explain why the question “why are there so many Thorne’s tins in Chesterfield”, began a 30-year obsession with Henry Thorne & Co. Ltd., mustard, cocoa and confectionery manufacturers of Lady Lane, Leeds.
Andrew will outline the history of Henry Thorne and his company, plus how the Woodhead family of Chesterfield became so influential in this Leeds business.