Wooden printing blocks from India are pretty enough in plain wood, but they can be even prettier when crusted with old paint, showing off the bold colors of India. I recently scored this one with a fantastic circus of color (from eBay):
It makes me wonder, what did it make with all those colors? Who carved it? How long did it take? How many times did a block printing artist have to stamp it? Did he get these colors all over his hands too?
It will soon be shouting its loud colors from a wall. Until that project is completed, here are more wood blocks with paint …
Little old blocks from India, from Daydreams from a Handmade Prairie Life:
Colorful printing blocks shown at the Quilter’s Market:
Gorgeous!!!
Wooden blocks available from The Well-Cooked Life:
More blocks with color shown at Pascale’s Paintings:
I’ve posted this image previously. It’s from Soma, textile creators and exporters in India:
I like the wood printing blocks so much better when paint is left on them. It plays up the whole point of the wood blocks — to make pretty images.
These are gorgeous!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed them. The turmeric chai recipe on your blog looks like, YUM!
Fabulous collection here…what a treat to surf that post :)
Thank you Sylvie! I wish more of these were mine – so many gorgeous printing blocks and colors.
What kind of fabric paints does one need to use for these blocks? I have collected a few blocks and would like to learn how to use them.
Hi, I haven’t printed on fabric yet, but I did recently pick up some metallic fabric paints. I’ll try them and report what happened. I would think any paint made for fabric would work.
I’ve also printed with stamp ink onto paper with these blocks, and that worked well.
Deb
Sir i need wood printings blocks where i can get please help me . Anand.
Hi, you can search for wood printing blocks at etsy.com. There are always a lot of new blocks and old blocks there!