Block printing on fabric

Find out about the mass production of printed cottons in the 18th Century; learn about the block printing technique and print your own fabric; learn about the craft of patchwork and design a patchwork block; evaluate your fabric block print.

Teaching Outcomes:

• Learn how hand block printing gave way to machine roller printing in the 18th century and how this led to mass produced printed cottons which became more affordable.
• Learn the craft of block printing through practise on paper and then print their own fabric rectangle using the foam print block they created last session.

Children will:

• Recap on their learning on block printing by doing a word puzzle.
• Discover how new inventions in roller printing enabled mass production of printed cottons in the 18th century.
• Learn the technique of block printing and print their own fabric using the foam print block they created last session.
• Learn how the craft of patchwork evolved as cotton prints became more affordable in the 18th century.
• Design a patchwork block using paper “fabric prints” and tessellating shapes.
• Discuss and evaluate their fabric block prints.

• Managing fabric printing in the classroom,
• Fabric printing word puzzle grid,
• Paper patchwork design task
• Patchwork template
• Fabric printing word puzzle
• Block printing on fabric

• Painting overalls for half the class
• Fabric paint
• A large selection of plain cotton or polycotton rectangles in different colours
• Paint brushes
• Print blocks (created last session)
• Old newspapers
• A4 scrap paper
• Art sponges
• Selection of paper printed with fabric prints
• Selection of coloured paper

There are no weblinks needed for this session.