Indian Block Printing is a good beginner accessible primer with tutorials for block (stamp) printing on fabric by Tess Grace & Holly Jones. Released 21st Oct 2025 by Bloomsbury on their Herbert Press imprint, it's 144 pages and is available in paperback and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents (including supplies and products to do the projects).
There's a lot of history and background as well as aesthetics and placement instruction, with lots of clear photographs to help for visual learners. The introduction gives a good overview of materials and techniques, followed by 14 tutorial with photos. The projects include a number of different items (tote bags, border designs etc) in a number of styles. There is no instruction for actually carving blocks, and the projects included use pre-carved Indian style blocks (the authors include links to buy specialist equipment including blocks).
Four stars. It would make a good choice for public or school library acquisition, for the home studio, for makers' groups, and shared studio spaces.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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