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Medium size zip bag | Hand Block Printed | Laugh & Hail (Horizontal)

£34.00

Made using my hand block printed textile remnants.

The uses are endless, one example could be for toiletries or pencils or just some of your treasures.

Fully Lined and printed onto 100% natural linen.

Measuring approx 20cm x 30cm

Hand made in Bedfordshire by Penny Loakes

Hand block printed and painted in my studio in Peckham, London.

Care: Hand cool wash is recommended.

All bags are one of a kind. Each side is different and each composition will be different as they are made from offcuts and remnants. They are all unique due to the process used, and will vary slightly with the print, composition and cloth base.

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Louisa Loakes

Louisa’s work blends elements from her fine art practice and her intuitive approach to textiles. During her time studying at Wimbledon School of Art, Louisa developed a particular interest in abstract painting, which continues to ground and guide her work across a range of mediums.

Working from her studio in Peckham, Louisa’s practice is focused on the beautifully simple, slow art of hand-carved block printing. Having spent many years researching the craft, she draws particular inspiration from the processes involved in traditional Indian block printing, and her practice interweaves Eastern folk art traditions with forms and patterns familiar to western languages of abstraction. As a self-taught block printer, she approaches fabric like a painting - or one of her charcoal drawings - creating delicate, twisting patterns that repeat themselves across its surface. Distinctive in their simple use of geometric form, monochromatic palette and signature dash of hand-painted colour, Louisa’s hand-carved block printed patterns are charged with a human touch, the irregularities that appear in the printing process giving each piece a distinct energy and identity.

Louisa Loakes Block Printing Workshops are available through her website along with her hand block printed fabric per metre, hand block printed cushions and more recently her etchings.

Louisa Loakes | Peckham, london