This traditional easy-cut art-print lino is specially made for carving. Available in a variety of sizes and also pre-mounted onto 18mm fibreboard blocks, giving extra rigidity allowing the user to achieve consistent, flat prints.

This traditional easy-cut art-print lino is specially made for carving and is pre-mounted onto 18mm fibreboard blocks, giving extra rigidity allowing the user to achieve consistent, flat prints.

E C Lyons mini scraper is made with high carbon tool steel. It has a solid triangular blade with three very sharp edges. Slice off or scrape away the plate surface for image making and corrections. Ideally suited to the most delicate work.

Rockers are used to prepare metal plates for mezzotints. By repeatedly working the tool over the surface of the plate in a rocking motion, the printmaker can create a smooth carpet of burrs, which will hold ink and show up as a dark area when the plate is printed. This rough surface can then be smoothed with a scraper or burnisher, which will lighten the print in those areas.EC Lyons Rocker Weights are used to weigh rockers down. This makes the process of preparing a plate for mezzotint significantly easier, since it is not neccessary to push the rocker down onto the plate.These weights come with screws to attach them to a Lyons rocker.

RGM Student Lino Tools have sharpened hardened steel blades that allow a precise lino-cutting experience. The handles are made from shock-resistant cellulose acetate that fit comfortably in the hand, allowing you to maintain dexterity during carving and ensuring your safety while using the tool.

The total length of each lino tool is 12.5cm and the range consists of V and U shape cutters, several chisel tools, and a useful point tool.

Akua Intaglio Ink was originally formulated for intaglio printmaking, however this ink can also be applied with a brayer for relief printmaking, monotype, and collagraphs; and it will print from any plastic, wood, linoleum or metal plate. It is a soy based ink which is made with high quality lightfast pigments. The inks have a thick consistency with minimal water content and contain no toxic driers - this means a longer working time. The ink cleans up easily with a dry rag followed by soap and water. Inexpensive liquid dish detergent can be used. Never use toxic solvents. Prints can be re-soaked immediately after printing if handled carefully. Once the print is dry, Akua Intaglio is permanent. Ink will never skin or harden in the jar or the ink slab, meaning minimal ink is wasted. Wiping the plate with Akua Intaglio is easier than wiping oil-based ink, meaning you need to spend less time cleaning up.

Cranfield Traditional Etching Inks are handcrafted, highly pigmented and include a vast range of colours giving the printmaker a wide choice whether they want to mix their own colours or not. Cranfield Traditional Etching Ink can be used for engraving, etching, drypoint, mezzotint and aquatint printmaking techniques.

The Speedball Deluxe Block Printing Kit has been designed with the true block printing enthusiast in mind.

Everything you need for a range of block printing projects is included in this set, including a choice of cutting blocks, a selection of inks, an extender medium, and a bench hook that doubles up as an inking slab. Create limited edition prints, handprinted cards, or in fact any paper or card printing project.

Set Contents:
2.5oz (75ml) Watersoluble Block Printing Ink Black
1.25oz (37ml) Watersoluble Block Printing Inks Red, Yellow, Blue
1.25oz (37ml) Watersoluble Block Printing Extender
Soft Rubber Pop-In Brayer
Bench Hook/Inking Plate
Lino Cutter Handle
Interchangeable Blades: #1 Small V, #2 Large V, #3 Small U, #5 Large U and #6 Knife
4 x 5in Mounted Linoleum Block
4 x 6in Speedy-Carve Block
Block Printing Tips and Idea Booklet

The Speedball Drawing Fluid and Screen Filler Kit is designed for direct stencil drawing onto a silk screen.

Speedball has developed a range of screen printing kits featuring all the essentials specific to your screen printing project. From their Beginner Paper Stencil Kit to their Advanced All-in-One Kit, and several options in between, Speedball’s Screen Printing Kits have been designed to contain just what you need for a variety of projects.

Contents include:
237ml Drawing Fluid
237ml Screen Filler
Detailed screen printing instructions

Speedball’s Fabric Block Printing Inks are an oil-based range of bold, permanent colours designed to be with washed up with soap and water. They are an opaque ink with excellent coverage and by adding Speedball’s Fabric Block Printing Transparent Extender you can create transparent colours while maintain the inks viscosity.These inks are designed to print onto smooth fabrics that do not possess a heavy texture or stretch such as cotton, linen, broadcloth or denim. Nylon and canvas are not recommended. Your printing block can be lino, wood or any similar surface and soft rubber rollers or brayers are ideally suited for inking the block.Speedball’s Fabric Block Printing Inks will dry to the touch overnight depending on your climate and they do not require any setting with heat. It is recommended you wait 4-7 days before washing your fabrics after printing.

Speedball Professional Relief Inks are lightfast and archival oil-based printmaking inks which can be washed up with just soap and water. These inks are designed for all types of relief printing, especially linocut and woodcut.This is an 8oz (236.5ml) tin of Ultramarine Blue (PB29, Speedball Lightfastness rating I). It is suitable for mixing with any of the Speedball Professional Relief Ink colours. To increase the transparency of this ink, add Speedball Professional Relief Transparent Base. The ink can be stiffened with talc or magnesium carbonate, and thinned with water. Because the ink can be thinned with water, it is preferable to print onto dry paper.

Created from pigments ground and milled to the perfect consistency for block/relief printing, Speedball Watersoluble Block Printing Inks print in bold colour and dry to a rich, satin finish. They possess excellent tack ensuring even coverage and consistently spectacular results.

Great for printing with linoleum, wood or soft block surfaces, flexible printing plates or polyfoam. Available in 16 brilliant colours, 5 metallics and 6 fluorescents. All colours clean up easily with soap and water and are safe to use in the classroom. Lightfastness varies from fair to excellent, except for the fluorescents, which have poor lightfastness.

For inking: Place one lip of the bench hook over the edge of your desk or table and roll ink out in preparation for inking up a plate or block. For cutting: Place one lip of the bench hook over the edge of your desk or table and set a linoleum or wood block up against the other lip and use the lip as a stop when carving and cutting. Lino Bench hook has holes to switch the side bar over to accomodate left-hand usage.

Very dark and opaque finish. For use with etching plates, this varnish is appropriate for backing the plate as well as stopping out (i. e concealing) areas of the plate where the etching process is not required.

The Lawrence Ball Bearing Baren has been created to bridge the gap between budget barens and the more expensive type while utilising the highly effective method of a printing face with ball bearings. Featuring 7mm stainless steel balls, the body itself is made from 3D-printed plastic with a domed handle to sit comfortably in your hand. The baren comes in two sizes 60mm or 90mm diameter, and can print at any size, although ideally the baren is most suited to smaller scale prints around A4 in size.

The Lawrence Ball Bearing Baren is a sturdy tool that will last you a long time. To look after it, you can rub some oil onto the ball bearings using a cloth or piece of leather from time to time. It can also be disassembled, and the 7mm stainless steel ball bearings can be replaced.

Felt Mat for Fome School Etching Press. The wool felt blanket helps to transfer pressure from the press to the printing contact area. The felt will assist the paper to push into the uneven plate surface picking up ink from the intaglio grooves. Made from 100% wool felt. Every now and then the blanket may need a wash which can be done by hand in cool water with a gentle detergent, ensuring the blanket is dried flat. Fome School Etching Press is for manual chalcographic printing (copperplate intaglio printing), suitable for school use and for beginners. Able to print up to a maximum of 22cm wide paper. Made in Italy by Fome. Read our series of blog posts about setting up and using the Fome School Etching Press. Fome Presses available here. Size: 26.8 x 42 x 0.3cm.

Japanese synthetic waterstones and slipstones for sharpening lino and woodcut tools of all types.

The 4000 grit or fine stone is used for the final hone and polish and will leave the tool ready for use.

Before use the stones will need to be soaked in water for 10 to 15 minutes. After use the stones are best air dried and wrapped in a soft loth for storage.

Contents Include: 5 x Cutting Blades 1 x Wooden Case (Two Compartments and Five Cutter Holes) 1 x Half Length Handle (8cm) 1 x Half Length Wooden Ramrod for Cutting Blade removal (8cm)

A biodegradable Vegetable Cleaning Agent for plates, rollers and tools. Protective gloves should during use. Soap and water can be used to finish to cleaning process. This product cannot be used as a dilutant for paints and inks.

Printmakers Gum Arabic Solution is ready mixed, darkish in colour and with a tiny amount of added preservatives. Specially formulated to be easier to see on plate and stone than that which you would mix from lump or powdered gum, and to keep fresh for longer. Gum arabic is used in various ways in lithography. For image processing and image etching and for plate and stone masking and protecting.

Printmakers Gum Arabic Solution is 14 degree baume.

Well engineered portable presses from Italy with solid steel rollers and 3mm thick metal bed. Lifting up the top roller is for relief printing only, you will not be able to print anything but thinner intaglio plates on this press, optimally up to 1mm metal with a decent bevel on or thinner 0.8mm plates like our econimy zinc or transparent printing plates. The Fome presses work well for line etching, drypoint, monoprint and relief.It must be stressed that these small press will not print with the same pressure as a larger heavier studio press. If you have designed your prints with your plates, inks, paper using a large heavy press, you will not necessarily be able to reproduce them on these small presses. Putting too much pressure on the presses can damage them.Please Note: The manufacturer recommends attaching this press to a table so you can get enough leverage for proper printing function.SpecificationsWeight: 8.5 Kg Length: 25 cm Width: 31.5 cm Height: 17 cm Width of roller: 25.5 cm Diam. lower roller: 3.5 cm Diam. upper roller: 3.5 cm Metal plate: 26.8 x 42 x 0.3 cmMaximum board or lino thickness: 1.7cmFOME 3mm Felt Mats available here, which you will need to print your plates successfully.Read our series of blog posts about setting up and using the Fome School Etching Press.Other Fome Presses available here.

Wood engravers use Round Scorpers to create incisions on the surface of woodblocks. As woodblocks are inked with a roller, these incisions do not receive ink, and therefore show up white in the final print.This is a medium-fine Round Scorper (#53), used to draw thick, bold lines. Above a certain point, Round Scorpers have strait sides, which means that they will cut a line of a constant width if fully engaged in the wood. However, because the tip of the tool is shaped like a capital U, lines cut with it will have rounded ends.Scorpers are also useful when lightening areas of a print by stippling: repeatedly pecking at the woodblock with the tip of the tool, so that the surface bears a carpet of tiny incisions. Because of the U-shaped tip of this tool, it is perfect for creating round dots.This tool was made from high carbon tool steel in the United States by E.C. Lyons. It is supplied factory-sharp, but it has not been honed to a fine edge. Please note, engraving tools are known by different names in the U.K. and the United States. Round Scorpers are known as 'Round Gravers' in the U.S.A.

E.C. Lyons Roulettes are made in the US, and are recognised across the world as the finest roulettes available. Designed to be used in intaglio printmaking processes the rotating drum at the head of the tool will stipple the plate surface with dots or lines. These small impressions will hold ink and appear darker in the finished print. They can be used for mark making in their own right or for making corrections to areas of tone on the plate.

Speedball’s Fabric Block Printing Inks are an oil-based range of bold, permanent colours designed to be with washed up with soap and water. They are an opaque ink with excellent coverage and by adding Speedball’s Fabric Block Printing Transparent Extender you can create transparent colours while maintain the inks viscosity.These inks are designed to print onto smooth fabrics that do not possess a heavy texture or stretch such as cotton, linen, broadcloth or denim. Nylon and canvas are not recommended. Your printing block can be lino, wood or any similar surface and soft rubber rollers or brayers are ideally suited for inking the block.Speedball’s Fabric Block Printing Inks will dry to the touch overnight depending on your climate and they do not require any setting with heat. It is recommended you wait 4-7 days before washing your fabrics after printing.

Speedball’s Fabric Block Printing Inks are an oil-based range of bold, permanent colours designed to be with washed up with soap and water. They are an opaque ink with excellent coverage and by adding Speedball’s Fabric Block Printing Transparent Extender you can create transparent colours while maintain the inks viscosity.These inks are designed to print onto smooth fabrics that do not possess a heavy texture or stretch such as cotton, linen, broadcloth or denim. Nylon and canvas are not recommended. Your printing block can be lino, wood or any similar surface and soft rubber rollers or brayers are ideally suited for inking the block.Speedball’s Fabric Block Printing Inks will dry to the touch overnight depending on your climate and they do not require any setting with heat. It is recommended you wait 4-7 days before washing your fabrics after printing.