Cyanotype Textile Art Experience at our Blended Monkey Studios - May 2025

siloutaggart
May 25, 2025
2 min read

Updated: May 26, 2025

Yesterday's cyanotype textile art experience with the talented Debs Munford as guest tutor was really successful. Cyanotype is such an interesting and mysterious process!

The students were guided through the steps, initially working on paper to gauge how to mix the chemicals and gain an understanding of the artform. Luckily, the weather held so their lovely creations could dry outside in the garden.

It was also wonderful to see the students make use of our extensive Blended Monkey gardens, featuring mature trees, ponds, grasses and various beds of flowers and areas laid to wild plants. They were able to walk around at their leisure and choose leaves & grasses to make their beautiful creations.

After a lovely lunch, featuring bakery items made by Fanoggins Bakery, the ladies moved on to cyanotype printing on to fabrics, including silk - with astounding results.

Once dry, their printed fabrics were arranged to create a lovely panel; stitching everything to a backing.

Such a beautiful, unique process. Looking forward to another one of these fab experiences.

The next textile art workshops here with Debs are listed below with links for more info and to book:

Saturday 23 August - Botanical Printing - BOOK HERE
Saturday 1 November - Textile Christmas Cards - BOOK HERE

For more info about all our other wonderful guest tutor group workshops, visit our website https://www.blendedmonkey.co.uk/category/group-workshops

Our experiences make ideal CRAFTY GIFTs & we can post or email you a complimentary personalised voucher if you'd like to make any of our experiences a present for somebody.

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Lovely cyanotype-printed fabrics drying on the line
Students getting to grips with cyanotype printing
Cyanotype printing at Blended Monkey
Work sitting in the sun for the photographic process to take place
Applying the chemicals for the cyanotype process
Work sitting outside in the sun
Washing off the fabrics
Student stitching her cyanotype fabrics onto a large panel
Lovely lunch!
Pieces clamped on boards outside for the sun to make the chemicals take effect
Some great stencils and leaves for patterns
Work sitting in the sun
Collection of beautiful cyanotype fabrics
Lovely cyanotype papers
Piecing together the cyanotype collage
Student sitting in the garden stitching together her cyanotype panel
Beautiful grasses captured with the magical art of cyanotype
Beautiful fabrics printed with cyanotype
Lovely cyanotype fabrics ready to stitch together
Group of students enjoying stitching together their panels
Tadah! Well done everyone. Shot of all the students holding up their beautiful fabric panels