Inky Fingers Workshop

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Inky Fingers Workshop Inky Fingers Workshop is a repurposing project with high environmental and social values. We have an according-to-ability approach to inclusive working.

Our volunteer team share a passion for doing good by example and supporting each other in our endeavours. Tasks involve measuring, cutting, binding and glueing using a variety of machines and tools. Some people have support needs, some just want to hang out and be a part of what is going on. We have a zero-to-waste approach to our high-quality merchandise production - we make notebooks from old hardback books and gift tags from post-consumer office surplus. We are a part of the Magic Carpet family.

The postponed workshop!This month's will be on the 20th (replacing the RISO session).We've got a stack of 50s & 60s ma...
07/10/2026

The postponed workshop!
This month's will be on the 20th (replacing the RISO session).

We've got a stack of 50s & 60s magazines and catalogues plus some more recent glossy lifestyle decadence to immerse yourself in! We'll be mixing in a vintage book of beautiful opera singers and some film star fan books!

As always, you can take away what you don’t use in the session if it all gets a bit too much (it always does)!

Collage Club is a hands-on, artist-led, craft evening and adult social space. Learn new techniques, styles and approaches in a stimulating, safe and sociable workshop environment, with cups of tea.
We provide scissors, accessible cutting tools, glue & mount board. You will want to bring your own craft knife, scalpel and cutting mat if you wish, for precision work.

Each workshop is themed, with specific materials provided (Inky Fingers has a zero-to-waste agenda and processes 100s of old books each year – capturing loads of amazing pictures and illustrations) and a rolling stock of high quality images to draw from. You’re welcome to bring additional materials to add into the mix.

Tuesday 20th October 6.30 - 9pm
£5-£10 Pay What You Can
Positive Light Projects, Sidwell St.

Check the full programme as it emerges via Linktree in our bio or our website. You can also book in for free via Eventbrite, but we take payment on the night - cash or card.

Sorry peeps, just swapping sessions this month - no RISO but instead on the 3rd Tuesday - 20/10/26see you at 6.30pm!
05/10/2026

Sorry peeps, just swapping sessions this month - no RISO but instead on the 3rd Tuesday - 20/10/26
see you at 6.30pm!

A quiet but productive printing session this month. We had some in-house stuff to do, so it was perfect that we could ...
23/09/2026

A quiet but productive printing session this month. We had some in-house stuff to do, so it was perfect that we could offer a focused service to someone new to the process.
Nigel (1st pic) brought a number of his atmospheric photos of local sights and he collaged them to create the different elements of his print. Gothic and spectral with a pop art splash was the intention and we think he achieved it!
AbsCat (pic 2) made a three colour print, which led to the discovery that you get a brighter green by printing the yellow layer on top of the blue (new to us).
Anyone who has bought or received one of our will recognise the info sheet that goes in the back (pic 3), this uncut view also lets you know how re-use our ethics are, as they’re printed on used folder dividers!

We’re planning two more printing sessions before Christmas, and a zine workshop - so book yourself in now of you plan on making some gifts/ saleable products!



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Had a couple of new peeps join the team, for the ‘new term’ - as they leave education and step into the world of young a...
15/09/2026

Had a couple of new peeps join the team, for the ‘new term’ - as they leave education and step into the world of young adulthood.
Both absolute gems and they fit right in!
The morning session started with some chants of ‘destroy, destroy!’ at the cutting up book activity and descended into football banter.
The afternoon gang kept it light with the usual practice of identifying each other in book illustrations (‘that’s you - a goose!’) and culminated with a measuring of the two tallest people in the room - Ali still reigns supreme and Stu had to use a chair to see the tops of the heads properly!

And we made some super books - off to a great start!

liding into the slipstream of the Bank Holiday madness, you can come join us in exploring the calm of the birth of photo...
27/08/2026

liding into the slipstream of the Bank Holiday madness, you can come join us in exploring the calm of the birth of photography and its growth into the early 20th Century.

We've got a charming pile of old books to chew through, documenting working class neighbourhoods, cities between wars, untouched alpine vistas, country houses and the people who live there, plus a catalogue of opera singers and review of burlesque dancers...

We provide scissors, accessible cutting tools, glue & mount board. You will want to bring your own craft knife/ scalpel/ cutting mat if you wish, for precision work.

Collage Club is a monthly activity, delivered in a safe and accessible adult social space. Over 18s only please.
£5 - £10 *Pay What You Can. No need to book - just rock up.

*We offer these workshops as Pay What You Can to ensure they are affordable to those who are looking for fun social activity but are low un/waged. £10 is brilliant value for 2 1/2 hours plus you get to take a bunch of stuff home!

collage club fun times!‘Wish you weren’t here’ was the theme, with a whole bunch of vintage postcards and tiny images to...
11/08/2026

collage club fun times!
‘Wish you weren’t here’ was the theme, with a whole bunch of vintage postcards and tiny images to work with.
We talked about who we might send them to, and some are already consigned to a new art/ collage cork-board wall in the family kitchen!

An enjoyable evening and people got to take away any bits they’d cut out but not used, as usual.

Soundtrack was a mix of Country, 80’s Soul and Disco!

Same time next month, deets forthcoming soon!

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Now that they’ve gone live we can shout about these sweet posters we made with Art Bloc You can grab tickets for their e...
05/08/2026

Now that they’ve gone live we can shout about these sweet posters we made with Art Bloc
You can grab tickets for their event at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artbloc-tickets-1993316904520
We used a heavier weight Dove coloured card for most of the posters, but also popped a few out on black card and they totally ping! (print doesn’t photograph well)
Look out around north Devon for some of these in the wild!

A super-sweet RISO printing session this evening with Alex Williams Here’s a great example of the ‘printmaker’ approach ...
21/07/2026

A super-sweet RISO printing session this evening with Alex Williams
Here’s a great example of the ‘printmaker’ approach mixed with on-the-fly illustration - and lovely results too!

Give us a shout with your print ideas and join in monthly, 3rd Tuesday. Booking form in our Linktree.

A calm and collected investigation of the materials this month. Life outside was a bit hot, chaotic and frenetic, so it ...
08/07/2026

A calm and collected investigation of the materials this month. Life outside was a bit hot, chaotic and frenetic, so it was great to have a fan, jugs of squash and to move slowly!

Chat was varied, a bit of catching up and making plans, experiences being remembered through the images on offer and some great projections of intentions.

We had a couple of proper coffee table photo books for this one, and it feels like there’s another level that can be reached with a bit of reverence for the source materials.
Kolaj Magazine

Please say hi to 🟣 A new development - responding to some lovely vintage books…After the last couple of markets we’ve ha...
07/07/2026

Please say hi to 🟣

A new development - responding to some lovely vintage books…
After the last couple of markets we’ve had conversations about the ‘top end’ of our range.

We’ve spent some time stockpiling Victorian and Edwardian books with beautiful aspects - embossed, gold leaf, coloured printing on cloth… So now we’ve started binding them with better quantity paper mixes - laid, hammered vellum, watermarked. We’ve chosen and fitted endpapers that are hand printed or period-specific and added sweet details - like vintage bookseller and publisher stickers…
We’ve also ensured that each one moves slowly through the process/ production team, with time taken to ensure the pages are cut precisely and the binding is as excellent as we can make it!

They are still going to be affordable, just a fraction above our 🔴 range…
They’ll be rolling out in time for the Christmas markets…

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