In Black 2 art classes we studied the African art of Kente cloth. How it was made, what type of dyes they used and who it was made for. We found it interested that they used river mud to dye the cloth certain colors. We then took a piece of Balsa wood and drew a design on each side of it. We carved the designs out using our pencils. Balsa wood is very soft and I didn't realize how easy it would be to carve (and break) the wood. After we had completed our designs we inked up one side of our Balsa blocks and printed that design on our cloth. We then cleaned up the ink, turned over our Balsa block, inked up that side and again printed a second design onto our cloth. The kids seemed to really enjoy this project and we had some really great designs from them.
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