Over the past few years I have been compiling a sample book from the previous year using the plates that I had designed. It’s an idea that I quite like and somehow regret that I hadn’t thought of it earlier!
The small blind printed fragments are in groups of six with two machine lies between them. there are three sets of silk stitched threads along those lines. These reference the unpicked seams project that I have been working on. The cover features a piece of card from Fiona Dempster, see here, from our collaboration, which includes her handwriting underneath the blue print.
The weather has been against printing in the studio, but I did manage a day printing postcards. The designs are drawn from scribbles and prints held in my notebooks, rescaled to fit into the postcard size and shape. They are now drying before I can prick ‘unpicked seams’ on them and stamp the reverse. Roll on warmer days!
Annwyn Dean 