Handmade Printing and Fabric Painting Workshop begins activities in Block Z

Block Z hosted this week, on Tuesday and Thursday (September 29 and October 1), the inaugural class of the "Handmade Printing and Fabric Painting Workshop." Promoted by the Extension, Culture, and Community Actions Directorate. According to the director, Sheila Martignago Saleh, the initiative aims to disseminate technical and artistic knowledge to the community, bringing organized society closer to the university ecosystem.

"The intention is to provide practical and accessible training that contributes to the personal development of participants, as well as to encourage creative practices focused on entrepreneurship and the creative economy," she emphasizes.

Led by the professor of the Arts program, Angélica Neumaier, the practical activities will equip students with the skills to handle specific tools for manual printing using stamps, an introduction to screen printing, as well as traditional dyeing and textile printing techniques.

"Our students learned artisanal processes such as the tying techniques of Shibori and the application of Batik wax. It is an opportunity to progressively and autonomously experience manual printing," explains the instructor.

During the opening practical activity, the class used EVA sheets and cotton fabrics to develop their first visual repetitions of prints. The professor guided the group on preparing the fabrics, which were previously washed and ironed to ensure proper adherence and fixation of the inks applied with foam rollers.

"Tests will always be conducted on cotton fabric. We will make the stamp on EVA so that they can then cover it with ink and print, using a small shape to create a repeating pattern," the instructor explained during the class.

The group also learned the processes of transferring designs using carbon paper, the use of natural leaves as stamps through pressing, and the adaptation of corks and bath sponges to create geometric textures.