Want to customise your clothing, bags, curtains… basically any fabric?
Join us for this beginners textile printing class and learn the whole textile printing process!
Through the class you will learn how to textile print using a range of affordable and easy to source materials.
Your teacher Emilie will support you throughout the workshop to create your own design and print it onto your very own tote bag – that you will get to take home at the end of the class!
There is no need for previous experience and all materials, including the bag, are covered in the cost!
What will we cover?
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What materials are good to use
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Different fabrics
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Inks and how to handle them
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Materials useful in stamp making
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Easy print techniques
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Tips to achieve great results in textile printing at home
Accessibility
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Gender Neutral Bathrooms
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Quiet Spaces
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Free Tickets for First Nation Attendees
Who will be teaching
Emilie (she/her) is an artist and educator based between Melbourne and Marseille (Fr), working across media with a focus on community-based practice and education. She graduated from her PhD in Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2020 and has been an art resident at Testing Grounds (2020), Making Space (2021) and the Comic Art Workshop (2021).
Emilie has exhibited her works at FortyFive Downstairs gallery, the Abbotsford convent, No Vacancy Gallery, Arcade and George Patton Gallery.
In 2021, Emilie opened Couleur in Collingwood, a printmaking studio focusing on DIY, hand-prints, and experimental printmaking. Since 2023, Couleur Studio has relocated in South of France. Emilie is also a comic book artist and her illustration has been published by the Lifted Brow and she self-published her first graphic novel in 2018 with Tree Paper Comics in Melbourne.
Important info:
Image: teachers’ own wonderful work
Have a question or accessibility request? Feel free to email us at melbourne@lanewaylearning.com.
Idle Time Studios
Idle Time Studios is a shared studio space for creatives in Brunswick East and a workshop space for art classes !
We are not wheelchair accessible as of now, and there is a flight of stairs to get to the workshop room.
Idle Time is located :4-6 Lincoln St, Brunswick East VIC 3057
It is a short walk from tram stop Mitchell St/Holmes Street (stop 128), on the 1 or 6 tram line. There is plenty of street parking available on the street of the studio (Lincoln St), as well as along Allard park on Donald St.
When you get to Idle Time Studio, go through the roller door and all the way down the courtyard. Turn right and up the stairs : the workshop room is at the top of the stairs on your left. Follow signs and call Studio resident and Laneway Learning teacher Emilie Walsh if you are lost : 0402684139