Linocut fundamentals
Single-colour blocks, registration tricks, and safe carving posture for evening workshops.
Teal Birch Atelier is a Ghent print room for linocut, relief editions, and small-run artist books. We believe the plate remembers every hesitation; our job is to make those marks legible on paper, not to polish them away. Every visitor receives a printed colophon card explaining our edition standards.
Relief printing · Limited runs · Grove Avenue studio
Edition ethics
Each run is numbered, dated, and recorded in the studio ledger. Remainders are destroyed when the edition closes.
Paper stock
Cotton rag and Japanese kozo chosen for tooth and absorbency matched to ink viscosity.
Open press hours
Members book the etching press in two-hour blocks after an induction session.
Collaborations
Poets and illustrators may co-publish broadsides under a shared colophon.
Workshop evenings
Thursday linocut introductions for adults. Tools supplied; bring an apron. Six seats to keep the bench calm.
Edition printing service
We edition your block on our press with colour notes archived for future reprints by permission only.
Studio membership
Monthly access includes storage locker and priority press booking windows.
Linocut →
Carving, proofing, and multi-block registration.
Editions →
Current numbered runs available at the desk.
About →
Founders, press history, and Grove Avenue hours.
29 Grove Avenue, Ghent
Teal Birch Atelier keeps edition sizes honest and paper choices visible in conversation before ink hits the block. Visitors to Grove Avenue in Ghent can browse recent linocut notes, ask about workshop calendars, and leave with a clearer sense of how relief printing fits a patient weekend practice rather than a rushed souvenir stop.