On 23 February 2019 at 1.30PM SEA Junction held a workshop by former stylist and Thai art designer Kwanpoom Vilaiwan on silk-screen printing created from Ayutthaya Stencil patterns. It was another occasion for both adolescents and adults, to learn how to apply the traditional motifs of the late Ayutthaya period to modern cotton products, in this case lunch bags.
Photo by Kanyawee Seedabut and Tipakson Manpati
Event poster
Kwanpoom Vilaiwan, workshoptrainer gave an introduction
The trainer showed ahandmade fabric from Paris
aged 20 years old as an example
of block printing on fabric
The trainer showed thesilk-screen block printing for
this workshop including buffalo,
rhino, car, and Phutai motif
Time to choose a bag
Participants chose onepattern of silk-screen block
printing to create the screening
on their chosen bag
A young participant showedthe silk-screen pattern
that she chose
Kwanpoom demonstratedhow to screen
Paper was put on the bagbefore screening to prevent
double screening
Put the color on thescreening block
Kwwanpoom demonstratedscreening a car
pattern on the bag
A participant triedscreening on the postcard
before screening on the bag
Beautiful screening of acar on the postcard
Another participant triedscreening on the postcard
before screening on the bag
Two young participantswaiting to screen their bags
Kwanpoom put the coloron the black screening for
a young participant
A girl screened rhinopattern on a postcard
(and later on a bag)
The girls with her beautifulrhino pattern screened
on the bag
A boy waited to screena buffalo pattern
The boy made thebuffalo screening
Good job with screeningbuffalo pattern