Linocut has undergone a resurgence in recent years, this book teaches the basic techniques for learning to make your own prints under the guidance and tutelage of expert teacher and artist Susan Yeates.

There are handy tips and suggestions throughout the book and each project begins with a list of tools and materials needed.

The book explains the rudiments of lino cutting, providing guidance through ten practical and attainable projects including greeting cards, artworks to frame, labels for jam jars, seed packets and bags or tea towels to print and give as personalised presents.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• What is linocut?
• Fine art versus craft versus illustration
• Tools and Materials
• Cutting tools
• Additional tools
• Lino
• Using your cutting tools
• Printing inks
• Papers
• Your workspace
• Techniques
• 1Draw
• 2Cut
• 3Print
• 4Repeat
• Projects
• Pattern Sampler
• Dragonfly Quartet
• From Photograph to Print
• Printing Text
• Two-tone Teapot
• Leaf Print Wrapping Paper
• Greeting Cards
• Seed Packets
• Jam Jar Labels and Lids
• Printed Fabric Wash Bag
• Templates and Motifs
• Index