Suitable for: All levels.
Price: £95
Location: Studio 6.03A St Margaret's House, 151 London Road
Flourish & Print: Gelli printing
Flourish & Print: Gelli Printing is a fun workshop to learn some easy textile art skills. May is such a joyous time in the botanical calendar. Trees are in blossom, gardens are bursting into bloom, bees and butterflies fill the air. Capture and celebrate the beauty of nature without being able to draw by making gelli prints from early summer foliage and flowers. You can frame your prints, use them as book covers, or as a base for collage in a sketchbook or artists book.
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Flourish & Print: Gelli-printing Course description
A playful introduction to botanical gel plate printing for textiles, mixed media, and creative exploration
May is a glorious month in the botanical calendar — blossom on the trees, gardens bursting into colour, and early summer foliage at its freshest. This workshop celebrates that abundance. You’ll learn how to capture the delicate textures of leaves and flowers using gel plates to create beautiful monoprints on paper and fabric. No drawing skills needed — nature does the hard work for you.
Your prints can be framed, used as book covers, added to sketchbooks, or developed into collage and textile art. It’s a joyful, accessible process that opens up endless creative possibilities.
🌼 What the workshop covers
- How to make simple mark‑making tools and print blocks from everyday items
- How to ink, layer, and pull prints from a gel plate
- What papers and fabrics work best
- Alternative printing surfaces you can use at home
- How to care for your gel plate
- How to turn your prints into a folded artist’s book, with optional machine or hand embroidery
🎨 Why you’ll love it
Gel printing is used by textile artists, quilters, cardmakers, art journallers, and mixed‑media makers. It’s inexpensive, easy to do at home, and wonderfully addictive. Gel plates pick up every tiny vein and texture, giving you unique, one‑of‑a‑kind prints that you can use across all your creative projects.
You’ll leave with a beautiful collection of printed papers (and optional fabrics) plus ideas for how to develop them further in your own time.
👥 Who is it for?
Anyone who enjoys crafting or creative play.
Perfect for:
- Contemporary quilters
- Textile artists and beginners
- Cardmakers and art journallers
- Mixed‑media makers
- Anyone who wants to create their own unique papers and fabrics
No art or drawing experience required.
🧰 What’s provided
All printing equipment is supplied. I’ll let you know what papers or fabrics to bring once you’ve booked
Once you’ve attended this Gelli Printing workshop and see how easy and fun it is to print your own collage materials or quilting fabric, you won’t want to buy any ever again.
You may also consider Print Collage Stitch – my 3-day creative textiles workshop as part of the Summer School programme.
Why Choose Artisan Stitch?
Artisan Stitch holds a Certificate of Excellence and is rated ‘Best sewing classes in Edinburgh. They’ve won multiple awards for Best Sewing Classes and creative workshops and are rated Scotland’s leading sewing school. Founder and lead tutor is Jen Skedd, who is a lifelong sewist, a degree-trained Textile designer/artist, and Surface Pattern Deigner.
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Must be pre-booked here
Enquiries to jen@artisanstitch.co.uk
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Location details
St. Margaret’s House – Sixth FloorSt. Margaret’s House, 151 London Road
Edinburgh EH7 6AE