Sat, 24 May
|Sunny Bank Mills
BOTANICAL CYANOTYPES & BOOKMAKING, £50
a 3 hour workshop at Sunny Bank Mills exploring the process of cyanotypes, aka “sun printing”
Time & Location
24 May 2025, 10:00 – 13:00
Sunny Bank Mills, Sunny Bank Mills Farsley, Farsley, Pudsey LS28 5UJ, UK
About the event
This workshop is taking place at Sunny Bank Mills on SATURDAY 24th MAY 2025, 10am – 1pm
Bookings must be made directly through Sunny Bank Mill's booking platform. (They will be launched in the new year).
This workshop will introduce you to cyanotypes – the original “blue print” (also known as “sun prints”) that creates striking blue and white prints. It is dubbed as 'alternative photography' in so much as it is not seen as a traditional photographic process - certainly nowadays where we rely heavily on digital cameras and digitally imagery. It is a beautifully simple process and possibilities are endless.
In the workshop you will be taken through the process, some history and lots of examples to illustrate the potential of the process; and spend your time experimenting with the process to make up to 10 prints of your own to take away, using a collection of botanical cuttings. Feel…