
Folktale Linocut Prints
Feathers & Folktales is the website of Diem Dangers, artist & printmaker, offering beautifully handcrafted linocut prints inspired by folktales of women and the wild. Celebrating earth keepers, medicine makers, priestesses, dream weavers, feral females, wild witches, goddesses, maidens, mothers and crones. Each piece is a timeless reminder of the power of the wild feminine, and our enduring intimate and enchanted relationship with the wild.
Linocut Art
A linocut is a type of relief print, that preserves the ancient method of traditional hand carving and the age-old technique of handprinting. A pattern or image is hand-carved out of artist’s linoleum which is then rolled with ink, and paper is hand-pressed on top to reveal the final art print.

Hand printing from a block of carved linoleum that has been rolled with ink.
The texture from the hand carving and variations in ink density from printing by hand gives the resulting artwork a rustic charm and timeless feel making linocut printmaking an ideal medium through which these age-old, heartwarming folktales and fairytales can be brought to life.
Diem Dangers is A Linocut printmaker, ARTIST & Folklorist
I love using the age-old technique of hand-carving and hand-printing to create block prints of folk heroines from around the world who are deeply entwined with the wild. In my blog reflections I show how our storied human heritage is woven together through a shared honoring of the timeless and enduring wild feminine.

SPRING prints
These archival quality linocut prints are 100% originally designed, carved, inked, handprinted and packaged by hand for you from a small home studio.
Featured Blog posts
These timeless and enduring folktales offer us a poetic lense through which we can rediscover the intertwined root system of folkloric synchronicities, our human-to-human kinship, and our deep belonging to this wild and precious planet.
What wild and precious part of ourselves have we lost and forgotten in the ocean between and betwixt our domesticated divisions, that finding and reclaiming will bring us to a deeper sense belonging? Exploring the synchronicities between two oceanic folktales, the Irish Selkie and Vietnamese Dragon & Crane, is a journey of self-discovery and a form of maritime medicine. Reconnecting these folktales requires that we swim fluidly with the restorative tides of underworld love magic and surrender to the cross cultural currents that transcend our modern national and cultural categories, shifting the way we think of people, place and belonging. . .gifting us with wisdom to weather the stormy seas of our times.
Who sits unseen watching over us in the shadowy branches of the forest of life? Perhaps nothing stirs the human soul more deeply than to be caught in the spell of a screech owl’s timeless trill. . .In Japan, the screech owl is known as a yōkai, a class of magical creature with paranormal powers known as iso sange kanji (“the deity who bestows success in hunting”). In Puerto Rico, the screech owl is known as múcaro (“eagle of the night”). This feathered and fabled creature shows up time and time again in folktales when the enchanted and the earthly are interwoven in an ineffable cosmic dance, begging the question: What is sacred? What needs to be remembered?
In ancient maritime folklore from around the world, being confronted by a whale serves as a symbol for life’s greatest challenges. Ancient seafaring stories about whales invite us back into a mythical relationship with what overwhelms us, and we discover what the experience is asking of us. In so doing, we discover whales have not just served our physical survival needs throughout the ages, but they have helped us to psychologically grow. Learning the wisdom of whales we enter back into right relationship with the wild, a timeless and enduring shared human value that weaves us back into belonging with the world.
Bridging continents and cultures, the Eswatini folktale of Cloud Princess from Africa and the Haudenosaunee folktale of Sky Woman from North America, offer us their shared and relevant wisdom enriching, deepening and expanding our understanding of the meaning of “generosity” in unexpected ways. We learn generosity is the vital and sacred choice that can weave us back into relationship with each other, draw us into closer kinship with the wild, and open ourselves up to belonging to a larger whole.