ABSTRACT
This chapter seems profitable to choose for discussion two of the most common school handcrafts, cutting lino pictures and fabric printing. The painter’s, is one of several possible introductions, but suggest just the opposite approach as more fruitful. The basis of any craft is an understanding of the material and the tools. The limitation to two colours, black and white, focuses attention on the arrangement of the masses, and leads to an appreciation of composition which can be related to the student’s painting. This printing on tinted papers is often pleasant, and absorbent typing paper gives a surface texture unobtainable with normal drawing papers. Such papers can be dyed by pulling through an ink bath. The Lino pictures can be printed on many kinds of paper, wet or dry, but just occasionally, it is pleasant to have a sheet of good jap paper to make a good print from the most successful.
