Walking the Block by Jane Weir
Walking the Block, is a poetic biography based
on the lives of the Modernist handblock printers and textile artists,
Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher, who created a unique range of hand
block printed naturally dyed textiles between the two World wars. Their
work was widely commissioned by a range of clients including Coco
Chanel, the Duke of Westminster, Winchester Cathedral and Girton
College, Cambridge. Jane Weir was also responsible for designing the
book with a view to emulating the creative approaches of Phyllis and
Dorothy and it is printed from paper manufactured from sustainable
forest sources and printed with vegetable based inks. Jane has also
recently completed an adaptation of Walking the Block, as a radio play.




















