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This one is absolutely beautiful!
Join Anna from Fabritzia Design for a gorgeous festive printmaking workshop where you’ll create your own hand-printed Nordic paper star from start to finish.
These traditional-style paper stars make the most stunning Christmas decorations. With their beautiful three-dimensional shape and handcrafted feel, they look fabulous hanging in a window, from a beam or mantel, or simply as a statement decoration amongst your Christmas décor. And this one will be even more special because every part of the design will have been created and printed by you.
Anna will first introduce you to linocut printing, showing you how to create and carve your own design into a lino block. You’ll then ink your finished lino and hand-print your design onto the paper that will eventually become your star.
Once your printing is complete, Anna will show you how to carefully fold and construct your printed paper to create your finished three-dimensional Nordic star.
The results are absolutely stunning — just look at Anna’s examples! This is a workshop where you’ll learn several different creative skills in one session and leave with something that looks genuinely impressive.
Paper stars have a wonderful association with Christmas and wintertime. Across Scandinavia and other parts of Europe, stars have traditionally appeared in windows during Advent and the darker winter months, bringing light, warmth and a little bit of magic into the home. There’s something particularly lovely about creating your own version using a traditional hand-printing technique.
You’ll leave the workshop with your finished Nordic Christmas star, your hand-carved lino plate to keep, and a detailed list of the equipment and materials used and where you can purchase them if you’d like to continue creating at home.
Meet Anna
Anna is a freelance designer and printmaker working from her studio in North Yorkshire and has an incredible 25 years of printmaking experience.
Her work has been featured in Ideal Home and on Channel 4’s Craft It Yourself, and she creates her own range of beautiful hand-printed artwork and stationery.
Anna’s work really is exceptional, and we’re delighted to have the opportunity to learn from her.
Perfect for beginners, you don’t need any previous printmaking experience — just come along, get creative and leave with a beautiful handmade Christmas decoration that you’ll want to bring out year after year.
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Bloom Cottage, Tees View , DL2 2DH Darlington, United Kingdom, 10 Tees View, Darlington, DL2 2DH, United Kingdom
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