Printing For The National Trust
17th March 2018
Preserving our National heritage is so important, and teaching the next generation to value it is even more so. Learning through play is something that has always been close to my heart, so I was especially happy when we were able to print jigsaws for The National Trust at Trelissick in Truro, Cornwall, to be part of their education programme showing how they care for and restore their treasures.
We were contacted by Rachel Diston who is their senior house steward, and asked to print and press some round wooden jigsaws to replicate the beautiful plates they have on display. We needed to produce some 24 piece and 88 piece jigsaws. These are now being used as part of their education initiative for both children and adults alike, to explain the processes they go through to care for, preserve and restore the plates they have in their collection.
Rachel kindly sent us a photo of these jigsaws, now being played with - broken up and re-assembled - by children of all ages!
What a lovely way to engage our next generation of historians, curators, restoration experts and artists!
Thank you Rachel for sending us this lovely photo of one of the jigsaws in it's Trelissick display box.
The print and press process:
After receiving some example images to check resolution and quality, we were emailed the best resolution images available.
These were then sized and printed to be pressed onto wood jigsaws, using the dye sublimation technique.
The transfer prints are reverse images that are carefully positioned onto the face of the jigsaw, secured and finished by using a heat press to transfer the inks from the paper to the polyester surface of the jigsaw. This gives a permanent, durable finish; ideal for the purpose these jigsaws were to be used for.
We were contacted by Rachel Diston who is their senior house steward, and asked to print and press some round wooden jigsaws to replicate the beautiful plates they have on display. We needed to produce some 24 piece and 88 piece jigsaws. These are now being used as part of their education initiative for both children and adults alike, to explain the processes they go through to care for, preserve and restore the plates they have in their collection.
Rachel kindly sent us a photo of these jigsaws, now being played with - broken up and re-assembled - by children of all ages!
What a lovely way to engage our next generation of historians, curators, restoration experts and artists!
Thank you Rachel for sending us this lovely photo of one of the jigsaws in it's Trelissick display box.
The print and press process:
After receiving some example images to check resolution and quality, we were emailed the best resolution images available.
These were then sized and printed to be pressed onto wood jigsaws, using the dye sublimation technique.
The transfer prints are reverse images that are carefully positioned onto the face of the jigsaw, secured and finished by using a heat press to transfer the inks from the paper to the polyester surface of the jigsaw. This gives a permanent, durable finish; ideal for the purpose these jigsaws were to be used for.