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.

Carving the block of artist’s linoleum with a gouge tool.

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.