Block Printed Pillows
1,345 views · Published 25 March 2015 · 1:50 · Indexed 27 October 2026
Channel: Home Made Simple · 2015 · Howto & Style
NICOLE: I’m Nicole Gibbons from Home Made Simple on OWN, and I’m gonna show you how to make your own block printed pillows using a blank pillow cover and a rubber stamp. I noticed that your dogs have chewed up your lovely pillows… JESSICA: Mhmm NICOLE: So they all have holes in them. So we’re gonna repurpose the insides of your pillow and make a new cover to go on top. JESSICA: That’s great! NICOLE: We’re gonna use a traditional block printing technique, which is an ancient Indian form of print-making using rubber stamps and fabric paint—in a fun color. SOLEIL: Cool! NICOLE: Alright, let’s get started. So when you’re painting, you want to make sure you have your pillow cover flat. Another trick is you don’t want your paint to bleed through the fabric, so you’re gonna slide that piece of cardboard underneath. SOLEIL: So that’s what the cardboard’s for, right?! NICOLE: Exactly! SOLEIL: I actually love doing this with my kids; it’s one of our favorite projects to do. NICOLE: So now that we got our cardboard in, the next step is to spread out our paint, and we are gonna do that on this plastic surface. And then you are going to use this tool, called a brayer, to make a nice even coat. So now that you have our even coat we’re gonna pick our pattern—we have a chevron and then we have this block that has four different medallion patterns on it. So you take your brayer and then you just roll the paint right onto the stamp so that it’s nice and even. JESSICA: But do I want to stamp on the seam? NICOLE: Yeah, I think it’s okay to stamp on the edge, absolutely JESSICA: Hmmm NICOLE: You don’t like that look? JESSICA: Well, just cause it’s not even on this side… NICOLE: What we’re gonna do is use some painter’s tape to block it off, so then you can just stamp right over it and your pattern will be seamless. JESSICA: Sounds great! SOLEIL: Looks fantastic! NICOLE: Beautiful! We are done, so all we have to do now is let these dry and we’ve got some brand new pillow cases. SOLEIL: I love it! They look so great.
