Photo gallery Printing on textiles, the old-fashioned way
Students and community members created printed handkerchiefs with linoleum blocks and ink, during the Textiles at Home: Block Printed Handkerchiefs workshop on Nov. 5 at Nancy Nicholas Hall. The workshop was held to promote the exhibition, Politics at Home: Textiles as American History, on display at the Ruth Davis Design Gallery until Nov. 14.
![Nora Renick Rinehart, an MFA Candidate in Design Studies, guides students and community members as they participate.](https://news.wisc.edu/content/uploads/2021/11/BlockPrinted_Handkerchiefs21_8713-_-1024x681.jpg)
Photo by: Brian Huynh
Nora Renick Rinehart, an MFA Candidate in Design Studies, guides students and community members as they participate.![Freshman Eli Song presses an ink-covered linoleum block onto a handkerchief to transfer a pattern.](https://news.wisc.edu/content/uploads/2021/11/BlockPrinted_Handkerchiefs21_8762-_-1024x681.jpg)
Photo by: Brian Huynh
Freshman Eli Song presses an ink-covered linoleum block onto a handkerchief to transfer a pattern.![The workshop was held to promote the exhibition, Politics at Home: Textiles as American History, on display at the Ruth Davis Design Gallery from Sept. 14 - Nov. 14, 2021.](https://news.wisc.edu/content/uploads/2021/11/BlockPrinted_Handkerchiefs21_8749-_-1024x681.jpg)
Photo by: Brian Huynh
The workshop was held to promote the exhibition, Politics at Home: Textiles as American History, on display at the Ruth Davis Design Gallery from Sept. 14 - Nov. 14, 2021.