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Stencil printing on fabric and paper - and what can be created from it

Mon 27 - Fri 31 July 2026

Stencil printing is a technique that offers diverse and surprising design possibilities. This ranges from graphically precise printing results to material experiments. What do I need to bear in mind when making a stencil? How can I convert my own design into a print sample, how do I achieve a clean print result and what do I need to bear in mind when printing on different fabrics with different materials?
You will learn to understand the structure of a pattern and to design a surface with a single motif. Repeating the pattern of your own design is also part of this course. We also work with textile reserve techniques, which can be realised particularly well with stencil printing. The resulting prints offer various possibilities for further processing. We will bind a pattern book and use folding and cutting techniques to give individual patterns a spatial dimension.

Group of participants: all interested parties
Requirements: none
Number of participants: max. 10 persons
Course language: German, English if required
Course times: Mon - Thu 9:00-12:30 and 14:00-17:30, Fri 9:00-12:30 and 14:00-16:00
Course fee: 420 euros, for students 380 euros (excluding material costs)

Course instructor: BETTINA ZWIRNER, Germany
Born in Memmingen in 1960, trained as a hand weaver in Sindelfingen and studied textile art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, lives and works in Nuremberg and Lichtenfels, runs a studio for textile hand printing and worked as a lecturer in the textile workshop of Werkbund Werkstatt Nürnberg GmbH from 2001 to 2024, and since 2018 as a lecturer in three-dimensional design with paper and three-dimensional design with textile materials at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen in the Department of Art Education.        
More info: www.bettinazwirner.de