Block Print Gift Wrapping

Artists Kate Watts and Kyla Cresswell will guide participants through the process of creating their own unique handmade gift tags, wrapping paper and a fabric furoshiki wrap. Learn how to use hand-carving tools to make re-useable stamps to print and take away your new gift giving items.

You’ll take home your own hand printed brown paper gift wrap, a fabric furoshiki wrap to re-use again and again, and a hand-carved stamp to continue creating with at home.

This workshop is suitable for all experience levels aged 11 and up. All participants under 14 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian for the duration of the session.

Kate Watts is a textile designer and manufacturer based in North East Valley, with a Bachelor of Design (Craft) from Christchurch Polytechnic, and a Masters in Visual Arts in Textiles from Otago Polytechnic. She has a creative practice that includes teaching and spans watercolour painting, screen printing and a rekindled addiction to block printing! 

Kyla Cresswell is an Ōtepoti based artist and printmaking tutor who often teaches workshops around the region and regularly at Among the Sparrows. Kyla holds a BFA from the Otago School of Art and delights in the fine lines of drypoint and crisp bite of embossing. Her work is held in collections nationally and overseas. 

2pm–4.45pm Friday 19 December
10am–12.45pm and 2pm–4.45pm Saturday 20 December
DPAG Classroom
$20 per person, limited spaces, book here: 
Workshop: Handmade Block Print Gift Wrapping - Dunedin - Eventfinda

[Image courtesy of the artists]