HINDU BLOCK PRINTED DESIGN
Then is also the time for the child to see some printed textiles in which the pattern is geometrical like his stick printing.
After the child has had sufficient experience with type shapes, he may add block printing. With the knowledge and experience gained through the use of sticks, he is enabled to modify the standard shapes. A wood block veneered with linoleum that can be easily cut with a sharp knife into any form desired, and which maintains a rigid printing surface, brings this craft within his reach.
In beginning the print block work a square or rectangular surface may be cut into a pleasing group of standard shapes involving straight lines and then simple curves. There may follow at later intervals in the course problems of increasing difficulty consistent with the ability to think and execute. Continued observation of commercial prints and, if possible, of fine handicraft is always in order.
In connection with block printing may well come an early lesson in setting colors.
In color printing the color should be a part of the fiber of the goods without the least injury or change in the texture. Any process which gums the fiber or destroys the texture is not beautiful in its results, and does not give true color printing.
