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Ashley Van Etten - Illustrator, printmaker, designer and owner of Willywaw, maker of handprinted goods. Rhode Island. willywaw.com April 2025 🚀 @ARTiculateTees.com, my new project, just launched!

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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 07/05/2025
Printed my first sample of Frog Block, a screen print, and made a pillow for #printpromptmonday #spring #printsky #screenprinting #womensart #printmaker
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 30/04/2025
I’ve missed about a month of #printpromptmonday. Ugh, so sad. Work’s been hectic and today I was piecing together vellum for my Frog Block screen print. That’s all I’ve got to show today. #screenprint #textiledesign #printsky
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 28/04/2025
Good morning Monday! Last chance to get an ARTiculateTees.com order in this week. Please place by noon (4/28). #peoplesmovement #goodtrouble #resist #democracy #liberty #truth #courage
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 26/04/2025
I made a few samples of my new “Knitting” print before deciding to make some changes and re-burn the screen. It was a pain to reclaim the screen, but it’ll be worth it in the end. I handprint and sew each tote. This one is made for small knitting projects. #knitting #screenprint #textiledesign
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Strangford @strangford.co · 14/04/2025
Give this a share if you can - the prompt this week is your #favouritepiece Some great work has been shared already! If you search the tag #printpromptmonday you can have a look 🩷 #printmaking #art #artshare #illustration #woodcut #linocut #intaglio #screenprinting #etching
The graphic for this weeks print prompt Monday! It shows three relief print motifs - a rabbit with a long medieval trumpet, a lady doing yoga and a weird bird. From the trumpet the words “print prompt monday” are emanating. In the top left it states that this weeks prompt is “favourite piece” 
The graphic has an off white background and the details are in a bright red and muted teal.
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 12/04/2025
I have several new tees, supporting science and the environment, available for purchase @ARTiculateTees.com #citizensciencemonth #water #environment #peopleforscience #activist #tshirts #tees #apparel
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lightforgestudio.bsky.social @lightforgestudio.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
First post here we go, it’s all about the #Ocean #lightforgestudio #narragansett #blackpoint #dawnpatrol #beachlife #optoutside #sea #ocean #rhodeisland #upearly #vitaminsea #spring #april #freedive #onebreath #oceanlife
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 08/04/2025
#friends #printpromptmonday ❤️ Our feathered friends keep us company. Here’s my print of a winter wren, from a letterpress block and also as a screen print. #printsky #blueskyartshow #womensart #printmaking #printmaker #screenprint #screenprinter #natureart #inspiredbynature #handprint #texiles
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 01/04/2025
I started something on the side - check it out and please share if you like. ARTiculateTees.com. Expressing Ideas Through Art. The site just launched 🚀
A screen printed flo blue tee with the words “Every Vote Counts” in white ink.Screen printed Ice blue t-shirt with the words “Good Government, of the people, by the people, for the people” in white ink.
Screen printed moss green t-shirt with the word “Grass Roots” woven into an image of prairie grass and roots, printed in beige ink.A screen printed crimson colored t-shirt with the Preamble to the Constitution “We the People” ect. printed in charcoal black ink.
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 24/03/2025
#printpromptmonday #foliage 2 red oak screen prints. The 1st was an actual leaf that my mom found and gave to me. The 2nd was inspired by random shapes. #printsky #blueskyartshow #womensart #printmaking #printmaker #screenprint #inspiredbynature #texiles #homedecor #oaktree #leaves #woodland #leaf
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 20/03/2025
#printpromptmonday #inprocess Though it looks simple, this is one of my hardest prints to pull. Rainbow is 6 colors on 3 screens, which create 11 colors. #blueskyartshow #contemporaryart #womensart #printmaking #printmaker #art #serigraphs #screenprint #screenprinter #silkscreen #handprint #texiles
A white cotton tea towel screenprinted with 6 transparent,  and bright, overlapping colors, which appear to be brush strokes, creating a rainbow of colors.
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 10/03/2025
#printpromptmonday #water Reached back for this 6 color screen print, a study for Ebb and Flow. #printsky #blueskyartshow #contemporaryart #womensart #printmaking #printmaker #serigraphs #screenprint #screenprinter #silkscreen #natureart #inspiredbynature #handprint #oceanlife #seaweed
A screen print of flowing seaweed and water in shades of green, blue and aqua.
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Strangford @strangford.co · 02/03/2025
🎺 The Print Prompt Monday - March Prompts 🎺 Interpret the prompts however you want! You might want to hold off posting anything until we make the weekly Monday 6pm post (just you’ll get more engagement then) Give this a share! #printpromptmonday #printing #artshare #art #illustration
A graphic to show the prompts for print prompt Monday:
3rd “Flipped”
10th “Water”
17th “In Progress”
24th “Foliage”
31st “Magic”
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 03/03/2025
Here’s my #Flipped #PrintPromptMonday screenprint of *Mermaids*. #printmaker #screenprint #artbsky #printmaking #womensartbluesky #wmsart #mermaids #coastalliving #oceanlife #beach willywaw.com
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 25/02/2025
I love coming home from my studio, aka The Icebox, which is very chilly in winter, and curling up on the couch with my dog nearby and an iPencil in hand. Normally, I like to draw at my desk with a real pencil. #sketching #natureinspired #womensartbluesky #floraandfauna #woodland #art willywaw.com
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 24/02/2025
Thought I’d share a photo of the sweetest press I bought several years ago. How cute is that wheel! It was well worth the wait from S. Africa to Rhode Island. 12x17 inch bed. RLV Etching Presses, E300 www.etsy.com/shop/EtchingPressshop #printmaking #printingpress #printmaker #etchingpress
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 24/02/2025
#printpromptmonday #inmotion Seaweed is my favorite subject. I love the movement, flow and its wildly organic nature. This was a quick test, made with 2 overlapping and repeating lino blocks, on my (then) new RLV E300 Press. Sweet 12x17 bed. #seaweed www.etsy.com/shop/EtchingPressshop
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 23/02/2025
Atlantic Silversides, my digital collage. It was created for CERF, the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, 8 yrs ago. Even back then, the current admin tried to silence scientists speaking about climate change. FAFO. www.cerf.science #climatescience #climatechange #science #marinebiology
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Dan Hannigan @danhannigan.me · 23/02/2025
Tried out @flashes.blue in beta, and… even though it looks like just another image-sharing app, the way it works under the hood is nudging closer to my ideal social media experience. danhannigan.me/the-flashes-...
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Why the Flashes App is Renewing My Hope in Federated Social Media
The Dream of Federated Social Media For years, the idea of federated social media has been floating around as this idealistic vision of a better internet—one where you actually own your identity and ...
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 22/02/2025
I noticed the song sparrows are already choosing their boxes, which seems a bit early to me, so I’ll put up a few more tomorrow. My Nest pillows are handprinted with cornflower blue, water-based ink, 13”x19”, with an concealed zipper and synthetic down inserts. willywaw.com
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Flashes App 🌩️ @flashes.blue · 22/02/2025
TIL: A fellow Flasher (maybe we need a better name? 🤔) pointed out that pre-launch download registrations are crucial for me. Once the app goes live, all those pre-orders will count as downloads on launch day, potentially giving the app a boost in the charts. So... apps.apple.com/de/app/flash...
Bernie Sanders in a jacket. The caption on the picture says "I am once again asking for you" and then the follwoing letters have been added to that to make it a meme: "R PRE-ORDER"
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 20/02/2025
I’m leaving FB & IG for bluer skies! My name is Ashley and I’m an illustrator, printmaker, designer and owner of Willywaw, maker of handprinted textiles. If you find my work of interest, please share. I’d appreciate any help as I rebuild on bsky. TY 💙 #womensart #printmaker #smallbusiness #shopindie
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 17/02/2025
#PrintPromptMonday #indoors My mom loves paperwhites (me, not so much!) and grows them indoors on a windowsill by the sink. I screenprinted this 2 color design on cotton tea towels and canvas for Mother’s Day a few years ago. #screenprint #mothersday #paperwhites #springbulbs #teatowels #flowers
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Sarah Robinson @sarahdesigns.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I don't want to be on ghastly x anymore but it's where a lot of my sales come from so this post is a brazen request for shares to spread the word about my work on a kinder platform that isn't run by a dangerous megalomaniac! www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Sara... #selfemployedartist #ukgifthour #shopindie
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 12/02/2025
“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
A federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to “immediately restore frozen funding” approved by Congress, following lawsuits from states.
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 10/02/2025
#printpromptmonday #intothewild My first tetra pak print with chine collé- Dandelion. - Carnival Papers Wet Strength Tissue Paper (made in UK, US source at joggles.com). - Roman, Universal Wheat Paste, a dry powder. #printmaking #tetrapak #chinecolle #printmaker
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 10/02/2025
Verdurous 🌿 Ferns, fiddleheads and mushroom spore prints, handprinted on cotton canvas. willywaw.com Photo credit: Maaike Bernstrom Photography #printmaking #woodland #mushroom #ferns #textiles #screenprinting #canvas #maker #artist #stpatricksday #irish #green #verdurous #sporeprint
Handprinted cotton canvas purse with mushroom spore print design and tote and pillow with fern design, all printed in pea green ink.
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 09/02/2025
This is my Rockweed Big Bucket Tote. Handprinted with water-based ink on mid-weight cotton army duck. It has a smooth surface and tight weave. willywaw.com #screenprinting #oceanlife #seaweed #canvas #beachlife #rockweed #seahorse #coastalliving #tote
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 08/02/2025
Handprinted “Let Your Love Grow” tea towel, soft and absorbent, 100% cotton. www.willywaw.com/collections/tea-to…. #screenprinting #valentine #passionflower #botanical #teatowel #kitchen #homedecor #housegift #hostessgift #handmade #maker #printmaker #textiles
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 29/01/2025
Burning a new screen for totes, called Knitting, which was inspired by this doodle. #knitting
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 28/01/2025
Still have a few cedar bird houses available at my studio. These have handmade ceramic squirrel guards and can be opened to clean.
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 23/01/2025
My annual Pillow Sale starts today! Save 15% at checkout with code: JANUARY25. Sale runs Thurs -Mon, 1/23-27/25. I illustrate and handprint textiles, using water-based ink and natural fibers, and sew each item in my workshop in Rhode Island. willywaw.com
13”x19” pillow with a Starfish design printed across the front, in aqua marine colored ink, printed on “peached” cotton, which has a bushed surface, making it extra soft but durable.13”x19” pillow printed with a background of sky blue ink on white linen/rayon. The image of the paper nautilus is white.The fabric is textured with slubs of fiber, making the ink look variegated. This pillow has a skeletal image of an oak leaf, that was eaten by a beetle, printed in pea green ink on “peached” cotton. The durable cotton has a brushed surface that is very soft. Pillow is 13”x19” and filled with a synthetic down insert.This pillow is a favorite with nature lovers. Measuring 13”x19”, a lumbar size that fits snug in your back. Perfect size for upholstered chairs. An image of a fern is printed across the pillow in pea green ink. The fabric is a super soft yet durable “peached” and unbleached cotton, with a brushed surface. All pillows have concealed zippers and are filled with synthetic down.
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 22/01/2025
A labor of love - handprinted, linen herb sachets, filled with a mix of lavender, balsam, clove, cinnamon, orange, and peppermint. Each one is sewn shut by hand. Place them in a drawer, closet or in your car. They smell really good, with a natural, light scent. Just the herbs, no added fragrance.
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Willywaw @willywaw.com · 16/01/2025
Hello! I’m so happy to be here. I’m an illustrator/printmaker and owner of Willywaw, maker of handprinted goods. My designs are nature-based, contemporary and cheery. I hope they make you feel good. Please subscribe to my newsletter at willywaw.com
White, absorbent cotton tea towel printed with overlaying, transparent images of small minnows in sky blue, aqua marine and spring green ink, on the lower half of the tea towel.
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