I spotted the leaflet for this workshop during the visit to the Sandra Rhodes exhibition and when my other half was struggling to know what to get me for Christmas I handed him the leaflet.

I’ve not tried any kind of textile printing beyond fabric paints so was intrigued to try something new. The workshop was run by Nicole Line and we started by painting some flock paper.

We then moved on to working with sublimation papers which are papers with sublimation dyes already embedded that you can transfer to fabric using a heat press (or being very patient with a very hot iron). You can use paper templates, cut shapes from the paper or just create a collage from scraps.

After lunch we moved onto the flocking and experimented with a couple of different techniques. This included painting patterns with glue directly onto the fabric, screen printing glue onto the fabric and painting and flocking onto different textures. Once the glue has dried the flocking paper is placed over the glue and heat pressed together to transfer the textured flock to the fabric.