Block Printing - -Dress Making

“Jensen’s Exclusive Originals HandPainted”

was the name these two gave to the to dress making they formed around 1949 in Vernal.  Marie was
 a superby dress maker and could create a dress for any woman of any pattern the woman would
choose, without using a printed pattern. She and Jim decided that his block printing skills could be
joined with her dress-making skills to tap into the pocket books of the wives of local professionals.
These dresses were both made by the two of them. Their success earned local celebrity such that the
 big city papers in SLC featured them, as did the local high-class department store which had them
put on an exhibit and show.

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This is the block print used to create custom dress labels:

The orignal, of course, is reversed. It was switched so you could read it.

Here are two examples  of the blocks that he created for this
purpose.

 This is a print made on paper. He made this before he went t Seward in 1950, and I found it later. I
took it and cut this shape out and mailed it to him with other things I made because I was homesick for
 him.  This gave me a connection to him.

Here is a sheet that he made while in Hawaii of the taro plant:

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