22nd June - Screen Print Your Own Tea Towels with Gail Bryson
Saturday 22nd June
10am - 2pm
Your ticket includes unlimited tea and coffee and a snack from our bakery during the break. The price also includes the two tea towels that you will print onto and take home with you.
You will start the session with a brief introduction into the process of screen printing. Gail will show a few examples and talk about her experience. Gail will then take you through the steps of creating your design, talking you through the printing process and finally helping you print your own tea towels.
You will then create your own tea-towel design, and make paper stencils of your design to use for printing.
At the end of the session you will print your own 1 or 2 colour tea-towel. We will use fair trade cotton tea-towels to print on, which you can then use at home in your kitchen, or even frame and hang as a piece of art. You’ll be able to print 2 tea-towels to take home with you, and there will be a choice of coloured inks to print with.
Gail Bryson is an expert designer and screen-printer. She applies her colourful geometric patterns to limited edition prints and fabrics. Gail runs regular screen printing workshops, and also has a long list of clients for her design work, such as John Lewis and Neal’s Yard Remedies.
What till you learn?
You will learn about stencilling, screen printing and how to translate your ideas into a design. You will then learn to choose your colour, and to screen print your design. Gail is an expert - you can also pick her brains throughout the workshop.
Timings
10am: Arrival, welcome and introductions
10:15am: Workshop begins
11:15am: Break for a snack
2pm: Workshop finishes
You will learn
How to translate your ideas into a design.
How to stencil your design, ready to screen print.
How to screen print.
About Gail
Gail Bryson is a textile, graphic and product designer. She specialises in simple and graphic prints that complement a wide range of home styles.
Trained at Edinburgh College of Art, she developed her design skills at The Conran Shop and The Nest before subsequently becoming co-founder and creative director of Bryson Loxley. Amongst her clients there are John Lewis and Jamie Oliver. She has also collaborated individually with other small independent businesses on a wide range of projects over the years.
Gail is a firm believer that good design will always last the test of time. Her products are designed to last both in design and manufacture, and are mainly all hand-printed and hand-sewn in London. Ultimately, her aim is to create things that can passed down through the generations, like the collection of linen she has inherited from her own family.
Colour also plays a big part in Gail’s work. Combinations are dreamed up from photographs taken on her travels and provide inspiration back in her studio.
