Day of Stories - Nature Printing

We are delighted to be hosting a craft session with Transition Town Tooting on Saturday May 11th (Day of Stories), which will be taking place between 12 and 2.30:

Nature Printing

Come and try an unusual, historic and magical technique: printing from real leaves and plants.

We’ll collect springtime leaves in advance from across Tooting – or you can bring your own. Then during the session we’ll pass on this historic method for creating beautiful and detailed prints.

Hundreds of years ago artists used plant printing to share their discoveries and pass on their knowledge to botanists and libraries across Europe.

You’ll like this:

·         if you like trying new techniques (you can keep it simple, or make it complex)

·         if you are interested in looking at plants in a new way

·         if you like experimenting with textures, shapes, printing ink and rollers

·         if you want  to make cards, posters or presents to take home

If you would like to bring leaves from trees or garden plants you have found locally – please do.

Come at 12:00 for an introduction and we’ll show you how it works, or drop in anytime until 2:30.

All materials provided, and we can adapt this to all ages: all welcome!

Any questions? Email us at transitiontowntooting@gmail.com

Transition Town Tooting is a voluntary group who have developed local community projects on food and growing, the arts, low-carbon living, green jobs and wellbeing in Tooting over the past five years.