The response to our new range of block printed scarves has been fantastic! Thanks so much to everyone who already bought one at our Thursday night event, and online too. If you’re interested in finding out more about the process of traditional Indian block printing, this video shows it beautifully.
Join us in our shop tonight as we launch our exciting collection of hand-blocked cotton scarves, which I designed after my teaching trip to Jaipur with Ritchie Ace Camps last October. Each scarf has been block printed by hand in a small printing house in Bagru village, just outside Jaipur, using vegetable dyes and printed onto fine cotton …
After returning home from my teaching trip to Jaipur with Ritchie Ace Camps last year, I was so excited about what I’d learned about the Rajasthani block printing I’d seen, but I was kicking myself a little for not having met up with printers to develop something for Skinny laMinx. I had been in the land of …
After my teaching stint in Jaipur with Ritchie Ace Camps last year, lots of people at home asked me about learning to block print here in Cape Town. Well, I have good news for you: Jesse Breytenbach is an illustrator and a Fine Arts-trained printmaker, who has been lino block printing for YEARS! Her …
This morning, I spotted Patricia Zapata’s annual mosaic review on her blog, which inspired me to put together this review of our year at Skinny laMinx: JANUARY saw us get inspired to grab the Cape Town World Design Capital by the scruff of its neck, and get the most out of it! We started by slapping an enormous yellow dot on …
My Making Friday rule has become a little more flexible lately, largely because my ceramics class is on a Monday morning, and also because my back pain has caused me to take steps to spend more time away from the computer. So there’s a lot MORE MAKING going on, but not necessarily on a Friday, …