A ground-floor room in Oltrarno with a sink, a drying line and a tray long enough for a 50 × 70 sheet. Come to watch, to buy, or to lift a few yourself. Before you do, try the practice bath below: it runs on the same drop-and-comb equations as everything else on this site.
The practice bath
Pick a colour and click the water to drop it. Switch to the stylus and drag to pull. Rake and comb draw across the whole tray. When you like it, lay a sheet.
Colour
In the hand
Across the tray
ClickTap to drop colour · switch to the stylus to pull it
Your sheet · lifted
Small tables, real pigment, aprons provided. Everything you lift goes home with you, dry and flat.
Charge a bath from nothing, learn how gall decides a drop's size, rake a gel-git and comb a nonpareil. You lift six sheets; we keep the tray.
- When
- Saturdays, 10:00
- Table
- 6 people at most
- You take
- 6 sheets
For binders. Match a colourway to a cloth, pull an edition of twelve identical-looking sheets, and learn why they never quite are.
- When
- First weekend of the month
- Table
- 4 people at most
- You take
- ≈ 20 sheets
Plain water, sumi ink and two brushes. Ring inside ring, then a breath across the surface. The quietest thing we teach.
- When
- Thursdays, 19:00
- Table
- 8 people at most
- You take
- As many as you lift
For a studio, a class or two people who want the room to themselves. Tell us who is coming and what you would like to make.
- When
- Mondays
- Table
- Up to 10
- You take
- Everything
Book a table, reserve a sheet you saw here, or ask about a commission. We answer within two working days, usually with a photograph of the tray.
- Where
- Oltrarno, Florence
- Tue – Sat
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sun – Mon
- Closed, or a private bath